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Asked: 2026-05-31T19:35:29+00:00

I need to get data from several tables, so I used a query with

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I need to get data from several tables, so I used a query with N left outer joins. It seems to me that it may be a waste of performance since I get the cartesian product of lots of data. Which is the preferable way to this in order to achieve greater performance? I’m thinking of doing N+1 little queries. Am I on the right track?

I know, this has little to do with JDBC specifics. I want to retrieve data from a single table, and make left outer joins to other N tables. The result set gets very big because I get a cartesian product. For example:

table1data1, table2data1, table3data1

table1data1, table2data2, table3data1

table1data1, table2data1, table3data2

table1data1, table2data2, table3data2

I know that if a make several queries to the database (such as in my example I get 1 record for table1, 2 records for table 2 and 2 records for table 2) I’ll make a lot of roundtrips to the database. But I’ve tested this way and it looks a lot faster.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This really isn’t JDBC specific. Generally speaking, depending on the amount of data being returned, you’ll get better performance retrieving everything in a single result set. N+1 queries tends to make for a lot of round trips to the database. Does the result set contain fields you don’t need? Can you trim the columns being returned? That would be a first step, if possible.

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