Creating Composite Keys Using Spring Data JPA

Manpreet Singh
3 min readSep 15, 2023

Spring Data JPA is a powerful tool that simplifies the implementation of data access layers in Java applications. When working with databases, it’s common to have tables with composite keys, where multiple columns together form a unique identifier for a record. In this article, we’ll explore how to create composite keys using Spring Data JPA.

What is a Composite Key?

In a database, a composite key is a key that consists of two or more columns, and its values uniquely identify a row in a table. Composite keys…

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Manpreet Singh

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