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| public Query createQuery(String query); |
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| <code class="classname">Query</code> objects are used to find entities matching certain |
| criteria. The <code class="methodname">createQuery</code> method creates a query using |
| the given Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL) string. See |
| <a href="jpa_overview_query.html" title="Chapter 10. JPA Query">Chapter 10, <i xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> |
| JPA Query |
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| public Query createNamedQuery(String name); |
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| This method retrieves a query defined in metadata by name. The returned |
| <code class="classname">Query</code> instance is initialized with the information |
| declared in metadata. For more information on named queries, read |
| <a href="jpa_overview_query.html#jpa_overview_query_named" title="1.10. Named Queries">Section 1.10, “ |
| Named Queries |
| ”</a>. |
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| public Query createNativeQuery(String sql); |
| public Query createNativeQuery(String sql, Class resultCls); |
| public Query createNativeQuery(String sql, String resultMapping); |
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| <span class="emphasis"><em>Native</em></span> queries are queries in the datastore's native |
| language. For relational databases, this the Structured Query Language (SQL). |
| <a href="jpa_overview_sqlquery.html" title="Chapter 11. SQL Queries">Chapter 11, <i xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> |
| SQL Queries |
| </i></a> elaborates on JPA's |
| native query support. |
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