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michaeltd • Edited

Gents during the 90's where complaining about how error prone was retrieving data from relational databases for use with applications, so some other gents came up with a way of (M)apping the (R)elational models of rdbms to (O)bjects in their applications (by referring to db rows as objects and table columns as attributes) as means of addressing said issues thus giving birth to the ORM approach to application data management.