Hibernate Interview Questions and Answers
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Ques 1. How do you switch between relational databases without code changes?
Using Hibernate SQL Dialects, we can switch databases. Hibernate will generate appropriate hql queries based on the dialect defined.
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Ques 2. How does Hibernate distinguish between transient (i.e. newly instantiated) and detached objects?
" Hibernate uses the version property, if there is one.
" If not uses the identifier value. No identifier value means a new object. This does work only for Hibernate managed surrogate keys. Does not work for natural keys and assigned (i.e. not managed by Hibernate) surrogate keys.
" Write your own strategy with Interceptor.isUnsaved().
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