How to make Hibernate only updates certain fields in database? I have a row of 10 fields, but I only want to update one of the fields by specifying the primary key, how should I do that using Hibernate?

You can use DML-style operations as defined here:

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... tch-direct

One caveat: if you're using an L2 cache, the cache won't reflect the change. Just FYI.

Ryan-