From 9fcf2b1a8e2b6a4098a4914e0703905a07eaa192 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 22:27:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add a little more discussion at the end.

---
 rails/select-value-for-sql-counts.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rails/select-value-for-sql-counts.md b/rails/select-value-for-sql-counts.md
index 22eb325..f94e54d 100644
--- a/rails/select-value-for-sql-counts.md
+++ b/rails/select-value-for-sql-counts.md
@@ -12,3 +12,7 @@ of _whatever_.
    (0.6ms)  select count(*) from posts where published_at is not null
 => 42
 ```
+
+Writing raw SQL for a simple query like this hardly seems like a win.
+However when a count query starts to involve joins or other fanciness, I
+find it much clearer to reason about the raw SQL.