On real projects, do they often use ORM libraries for databases or do they write pure queries by hand more often?

Question

Database

On real projects, do they often use ORM libraries for databases or do they write pure queries by hand more often?

Answer 1

often. Often.
Raw requests are filed only where there were no orms at all / they don’t want to, they can’t cope and / or they don’t know how to use it.