A beginner’s guide to JPA and Hibernate query hints

Introduction In this article, we are going to see what JPA query hints are, and get to know all the query hints supported by Hibernate. Understanding the Hibernate query hints is very important when developing a non-trivial enterprise application since they allow you to customize the way queries are executed by Hibernate.

How to get the actual execution plan for an Oracle SQL query using Hibernate query hints

Introduction While answering this question on the Hibernate forum, I realized that it’s a good idea to write an article about getting the actual execution plan for an Oracle SQL query using Hibernate query hints feature.