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Hi I’m Mark, a Software Engineer from Belfast and Head of Support in the Brown house, duties mainly involve turning it off and on again.

How to introduce a Cartesian Product into your generated queries

When working with an ORM, it is essential that you inspect your generated queries. Often when doing so you will find they are not entirely what you expected. The CriteriaBuilder API can be very useful for building dynamic queries, but you must take great care – especially if you let your UI generate many _wonderful_ queries to fulfil all of its filtering/sorting/etc.

February 24th, 2021 · 1 min read

Activate Hibernate Query Statistics to investigate your performance issues

Often, you’re may find yourself wondering why application performance has degraded – and almost always that issue originates from your persistence layer. You can interrogate your query statistics in SQL Server using some of the built in (Transact SQL) views – which have been invaluable before to me investigating issues in customer environments.

January 31st, 2021 · 1 min read
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