---
title: "Like repositories, jOOQ's DAOs are only useful for very simple stuff"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/like-repositories-jooq-s-daos-are-only-useful-for-very-simple-stuff-wlfeexktx
source_url: https://blog.jooq.org/to-dao-or-not-to-dao/
type: article
source: "JOOQ"
published: 2023-12-06T13:44:41.582Z
updated: 2023-12-06T13:44:41.029Z
tags: ["database", "sql", "dao"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Like repositories, jOOQ's DAOs are only useful for very simple stuff

**[JOOQ](https://daily.dev/sources/jooq)** · 3 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

jOOQ's DAOs are a limited API useful only for very primitive CRUD tasks. They suffer from the same problem as repositories in that they are hardly ever enough for serious database interaction.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://blog.jooq.org/to-dao-or-not-to-dao/>

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Tags: [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#sql](https://daily.dev/tags/sql), [#dao](https://daily.dev/tags/dao)

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