It's fine advice - if you can type check your queries. My colleague wrote a mypy plugin for parsing SQL statements and doing type checking against a database schema file, which helps to identify typos and type errors early: https://github.com/antialize/py-mysql-type-plugin
Raw sql doesn’t compose, so it’s a no go for me except in special cases, but the tool would be a great addition to sqlalchemy.core for when those special cases occur.
