Updating data without extracting

Question

Can NHibernate update some (not all) fields in a table row without receiving any data? I know the identifier of the object.

Answer 1

Here you can find all the examples:

http://nhibernate.info/doc/nh/en/index.html#batch-direct

Answer 2

session.CreateQuery("update Foo f set f.Date = :date where f.Id = :id") .SetParameter("date", DateTime.Now) .SetParameter("id", 25) .ExecuteUpdate(); 

Answer 3

You can do it with HQL