I believe there could be ORMs (or DB libraries) that makes this separation clear. Ecto gets this right although it's not an ORM: an SQL query is a composable da

I believe there could be ORMs (or DB libraries) that makes this separation clear. Ecto gets this right although it's not an ORM: an SQL query is a composable data structure that should be explicitly passed to a separate function, belonging to the database repository, in order to be executed.