Re: [Hibernate] Automatically determining dialect

[Christoph S. <ch...@mc...>]

I think its a good idea because every feature that makes hibernate more
auto-configuring is a good feature. I wanted to work on the dialects anyway,
so I will take a look at this too if its ok for the others too :)

-chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Nokleberg" <ch...@si...>
To: <hib...@li...>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 8:37 AM
Subject: [Hibernate] Automatically determining dialect


> I'm trying to reduce the number of properties required to switching
> between databases. I think hibernate could automatically determine the
> proper dialect once it is connected to the database, via
>
>   conn.getMetaData().getDatabaseProductName()
>
> It doesn't appear that the dialect needs to be known prior to
> connection, but I could easily be wrong about that.
>
> Another issue is that not all databases may have full jdbc metadata
> support, but this would be easy enough to find out. Thoughts?
>
> -Chris
>
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