> AFAIR, the only times when it was expressed as "something to worry about"
> was in the context of questions like "Is there any performance reason not
> to encapsulate my entire application sets requirements into views
> so that I
> can use a Delphi TTable for everything and forget about learning how SQL
> works?" That WILL have a horrible performance cost. :-))
>

Presumably, this person would rely on someone who does know SQL to write all
the queries for them, and maintain these queries? I can't imagine the pain
this would be.
Alan