Master Hibernate and JPA with Spring Boot in 100 Steps - Step 38 - ManyToMany Mapping - Insert Data and Write Join Query

The video tutorial explains how to manage a student_course table in a database. It covers creating the table, inserting data, and verifying the insertion using the H2 console. The tutorial also demonstrates how to join the student, course, and student_course tables to retrieve data. Finally, it introduces using JPA to access data through defined relationships without writing SQL queries.

What is the significance of the join operation between the student_course, student, and course tables?

Explain how JPA handles data retrieval without writing explicit queries.