intermediateJPQL, Native Queries, Specifications & Criteria API
What's the tradeoff of using a native query instead of JPQL?
A native query gives full access to database-specific SQL features JPQL can't express, but sacrifices portability across JPA providers/databases and typically needs explicit result-set mapping back to entities or DTOs, unlike JPQL which maps automatically.
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