Could someone who doesn’t know SQL use an ORM database connector effectively?

A friend and I had an argument that was somewhat in jest about whether someone with no SQL knowledge could purely use a traditional programming library (say, SQLAlchemy) to interact with databases.

In my experience, Python SQLAlchemy falls down pretty hard when dealing with any amount more than a few hundred thousand records, and beyond that, when I use it I’m usually executing a query that I wrote in SQL, so I’m not sure what their interface looks like as …

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