True about the params. I guess I've always put the queries in as "here" strings, so they do look out of place in the sense that the structure is different. In most cases the sql was in a file with a bunch of other "lowest" level db calls, so I kind of got used to that being the look of those particular source files.

Looked at the Hangfire code and the last two methods there look a lot like what I used to do in the old C# days. Except I'd have whole files of db stuff like that, and other files for the C# code that called them.