To answer this question, we need to understand the purpose and behavior of the load method in Hibernate.
The load method in Hibernate is used to load an entity object from the database based on its identifier. It returns a proxy object that is associated with the given entity class and identifier. The actual database query is not executed immediately; instead, it is deferred until the proxy object is accessed.
In the given code snippet, the load method is used to load an instance of the Employee class. Since we are only loading the object and not accessing any of its properties or methods, the actual database query is not executed yet.
Therefore, the correct answer is:
Option B) No - The code snippet only loads the Employee object using the load method but does not perform any operations on it.