ssql package provide some simple methods to make it easier to work with SQL in GO.
ssql is not a full featured ORM library, it's a simple wrapper of standard database/sql package
db, err := ssql.Open("mysql", "user:pass@tcp(localhost:3306)/dbname?parseTime=true")
var item Item
err := db.Select("select * from items where id=?", 50).Value(&item)
var items []Item
err := db.Select("select * from items").Values(&items)
v, err := db.Select("select count(*) from items").Int()