[development] Data-driven database tables and updates

This discussion about the virtues/evils of database application layers is weird. I don't know if I'm missing something. When it comes down to it, this is *not* SQL: db_query('SELECT COUNT(vid) FROM {ec_product} WHERE vid = %d', $node->vid) So any (potential) Drupal programmers who can't handle a database application layer have already left the building. Bye bye programmers, sorry you couldn't work out the whole %d %d %s %s %s thing!