The Spring Data JpaRepository interface comes with the save(S entity) method that is frequently used to update an entity representation on the database level. By default, the method generates an UPDATE statement that requests a change to the values of all the entity class columns. This includes the columns not touched by your application code. However,  this behavior can be far from satisfactory for several reasons. 

Luckily, Hibernate supports the @DynamicUpdate annotation that, once applied to an entity class, helps the save(S entity) and similar methods generate a SQL update command with columns that are actually changed.