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10.4.4. Queries in native SQL

You can express a query in SQL, using createSQLQuery() and let Hibernate manage the mapping from result sets to objects. You can at any time call session.connection() and use the JDBC Connection directly. If you choose to use the Hibernate API, you must enclose SQL aliases in braces:
List cats = session.createSQLQuery("SELECT {cat.*} FROM CAT {cat} WHERE ROWNUM<10")
    .addEntity("cat", Cat.class)
.list();
List cats = session.createSQLQuery(
    "SELECT {cat}.ID AS {cat.id}, {cat}.SEX AS {cat.sex}, " +
           "{cat}.MATE AS {cat.mate}, {cat}.SUBCLASS AS {cat.class}, ... " +
    "FROM CAT {cat} WHERE ROWNUM<10")
    .addEntity("cat", Cat.class)
.list();
SQL queries can contain named and positional parameters, just like Hibernate queries. More information about native SQL queries in Hibernate can be found in Chapter 16, Native SQL.