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SQL Dialects in Hibernate

The dialect specifies the type of database used in hibernate so that hibernate generate appropriate type of SQL statements. For connecting any hibernate application with the database, it is required to provide the configuration of SQL dialect.

Syntax of SQL Dialect

List of SQL Dialects

There are many Dialects classes defined for RDBMS in the org.hibernate.dialect package. They are as follows:

RDBMS	Dialect
Oracle (any version)	org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect
Oracle9i	org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9iDialect
Oracle10g	org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect
MySQL	org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
MySQL with InnoDB	org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect
MySQL with MyISAM	org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLMyISAMDialect
DB2	org.hibernate.dialect.DB2Dialect
DB2 AS/400	org.hibernate.dialect.DB2400Dialect
DB2 OS390	org.hibernate.dialect.DB2390Dialect
Microsoft SQL Server	org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect
Sybase	org.hibernate.dialect.SybaseDialect
Sybase Anywhere	org.hibernate.dialect.SybaseAnywhereDialect
PostgreSQL	org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect
SAP DB	org.hibernate.dialect.SAPDBDialect
Informix	org.hibernate.dialect.InformixDialect
HypersonicSQL	org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
Ingres	org.hibernate.dialect.IngresDialect
Progress	org.hibernate.dialect.ProgressDialect
Mckoi SQL	org.hibernate.dialect.MckoiDialect
Interbase	org.hibernate.dialect.InterbaseDialect
Pointbase	org.hibernate.dialect.PointbaseDialect
FrontBase	org.hibernate.dialect.FrontbaseDialect
Firebird	org.hibernate.dialect.FirebirdDialect