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Free Mini Course: How to find and fix n+1 select issues with Hibernate


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Loading related entities with JPA and Hibernate is a comfortable feature that is also the most common reason for performance issues. In most applications you can find one of these two issues:

  • related entities are eagerly loaded, even if they are not needed or
  • related entities are lazily loaded which creates n+1 select issues if they are needed.

The first one can be easily fixed by changing the FetchType of a relationship to LAZY. But that often leads directly into the second issue. If you do not handle lazy relationships between entities in the right way, you will get n+1 select issues which will also slow down your application.

But these can be easily fixed as I show you in this free, 3-part mini course.

In the first part of this course, I explain what the n+1 select issue and how you can use Hibernate to find these issues during development.

In the second part, I show you how to use @NamedEntityGraphs to fix n+1 select issues by defining a graph of entities which will be fetched from the database.

In the third and final part, I show you how to dynamically define Entity Graphs at runtime.


Join here to get full access to this free video course.