beginnerN+1 Queries & Fetching Strategies — JOIN FETCH, Entity Graph, Batch Fetch

What is the N+1 query problem, precisely?

Loading N parent entities with one query, then accessing a LAZY association on each one in a loop triggers N additional queries — one per parent — because Hibernate has no way to know ahead of time that the same association will be accessed on every parent in the collection.

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