How do JPA persist, merge and Hibernate save, update, saveOrUpdate methods work
Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you how the JPA persist and merge work and how do they compare with the Hibernate save, update, and saveOrUpdate methods. Although you should favor the JPA-based entity state transition methods, you are going to see that the Hibernate-specific update is actually a good alternative to merge when you want to reduce the number of SQL queries being executed during a batch processing task.
How to optimize the merge operation using update while batching with JPA and Hibernate
Introduction One of my readers has recently asked me about optimizing the merge entity state transition, and, because this is a great question, I decided to turn it into a blog post. In this article, you are going to see a shortcoming of the merge entity state transition and how you can deal with it using Hibernate.
