A Hidden Benefit of Implicit Joins: Join Elimination

One of jOOQ's key features so far has always been to render pretty much exactly the SQL that users expect, without any surprises - unless some emulation is required to make a query work, of course. This means that while join elimination is a powerful feature of many RDBMS, it isn't part of jOOQ's feature … Continue reading A Hidden Benefit of Implicit Joins: Join Elimination

jOOQ 3.19’s new Explicit and Implicit to-many path joins

jOOQ 3.19 finally delivers on a set of features that will greatly simplify your queries further, after jOOQ 3.11 introduced implicit to-one joins: Explicit path joins To-many path joins Implicit join path correlation What are these features? Many ORMs (e.g. JPA, Doctrine, jOOQ 3.11 and others) support "path joins" (they may have different names for … Continue reading jOOQ 3.19’s new Explicit and Implicit to-many path joins

Projecting Type Safe Nested TableRecords with jOOQ 3.17

A long standing feature request has seen little love from the jOOQ community, despite a lot of people probably wanting it. It goes by the unimpressive title Let Table<R> extend SelectField<R>: https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/issues/4727 What does the feature mean, specifically? The awesome PostgreSQL Let's have a look at a really cool PostgreSQL feature. In PostgreSQL, it is … Continue reading Projecting Type Safe Nested TableRecords with jOOQ 3.17

Why You Should Use jOOQ With Code Generation

I'm answering many jOOQ questions on Stack Overflow, and a lot of times. The problem has the same cause: People not using jOOQ's code generator. The main reason people seem not to be using it, is because it takes some extra time to set up, but as with anything well designed, the initial investment will … Continue reading Why You Should Use jOOQ With Code Generation