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Chapter 14. The Hibernate Query Language (HQL)

14.1. About the Hibernate Query Language
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Hibernate uses a powerful query language (HQL) that is similar in appearance to SQL. Compared with SQL, however, HQL is fully object-oriented and understands notions like inheritance, polymorphism and association.
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