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NHibernate in Action
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NHibernate in Action

by Tobin Harris, Pierre Henri Kuate, Gavin King, Christian Bauer
January 2009
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
14h 15m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 7. Retrieving objects efficiently

This chapter covers

  • NHibernate query features
  • HQL, criteria, and native SQL
  • Advanced, reporting, and dynamic queries
  • Runtime fetching and query optimization

Queries are the most interesting part of writing good data access code. A complex query may require a long time to get right, and its impact on the performance of an application can be tremendous. As with regular SQL, writing NHibernate queries becomes much easier with experience.

If you’ve been using handwritten SQL for a number of years, you may be concerned that ORM will take away some of the expressiveness and flexibility you’re used to. This is seldom the case; NHibernate’s powerful query facilities allow you to do almost anything you ...

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