What nested SQL queries might look like A friend was talking to me about ORM design recently. I'm a heavy SQLAlchemy user, but see all the reasons people dislike ORMs, so on a recent project I had a go at dipping back down to raw SQL land to see how I'd cope. I ended up finding the experience pretty frustrating - I'm sure someone will have written it before, but there's definitely some Greenspun's eleventh rule about any sufficiently complex SQL string munging codebase turning into a half-ars...
