Posted on February 27, 2026 by vladmihalcea
How to emulate LEFT JOIN FETCH using Record-based projections
Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you how to emulate a LEFT JOIN FETCH between two root entities without fetching the intermediate child entity. I got the inspiration for this article by this comment thread on my blog.
Posted on October 10, 2017 by vladmihalcea
How to JOIN unrelated entities with JPA and Hibernate
Introduction Answering questions on the Hibernate forum is a neverending source of inspiration. The following question is about joining unrelated entities using entity queries, and this post is going to explain how you can do it when using JPA and Hibernate.
