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+title: "Rust: sqlx without macros"
+author: "James Pace"
+date: "2024/01/01"
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+[`sqlx`](https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx) is a Rust crate that allows
+for interacting with a SQL database.
+One of the more popular features of `sqlx` is that it does compile time checking
+of database queries (giving you some ORM-ish properties) while still allowing
+you to write straight SQL queries without the abstraction of an ORM though use
+of their [`query!`](https://docs.rs/sqlx/0.5.5/sqlx/macro.query.html).
+
+To make this work, `sqlx` requires:
+
+1. access to a database at compile time, OR
+2. config files to be generated from a running database everytime
+   the database queries are modified.
+
+I don't particularly like either of those options, though I admittedly
+have not tried either of them long term.
+Requring a running database at compile time would seem to make compilation
+a lot slower.
+It also adds a unexpected step (run a container hosting a development database)
+before you can compile, which just feels wrong.
+The configuation files are better in the sense they don't require a running
+database at compile time, but it's an extra thing that has to be kept in sync
+with the code.
+
+Luckily, `sqlx` provides functions that can be used to do queries that aren't
+checked at compile time for people with the same concerns as I have.
+Because this isn't the recommended path though, the number of examples of
+using the functions online is a little lacking, which I'll make an effort
+to improve in this post.
+
+# Background
+
+# Example