We can directly use a hand-written core SQL query with hibernate. This is a useful feature if we want to execute a database-specific query that is not supported by the hibernate API, such as query hints or the CONNECT
keyword in an Oracle database.
This is a useful feature when the developer has a ready native SQL. We can perform the Select
, non-select
, and Bulk
operations as well.
We can use Session.createSQLQuery(String query)
to execute a SQL query. We have multiple APIs available to execute the SQL query, and we will take a look at these in detail:
Scalar queries
Entity queries