Wednesday, 20 April 2016

What is HQL ?



HQL (Hibernate Query Language)
  • designed for data management using Hibernate
  • A completely object oriented and hence has notions like inheritance, polymorphism and abstraction
  • acts as a bridge between Objects and RDBMS
Queries written in HQL are case-sensitive.
The query operations are through objects.


HQL vs. SQL

HQL is similar in appearance to SQL, but with some properties :
  • HQL is fully object-oriented and understands various OOPs features
  • HQL is RDBMS independent

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