If you want to understand an SQL statement for Hibernate: this replaces the selected fields in an SQL statement generated by Hibernate by a shorthand, since you usually just care about the logic. E.g. it changes select foo0_.bla as bla1_3, foo0_.bar as bar1_3, foo0_.baz1_3 as baz1_3 from ... to select foo0_.**1_3 from ...