Why do I need to configure the SQL dialect of a data source?

Question

When we configure a data source using Hibernate, we should add the hibernate.dialect property (or eclipselink.target-database if you are using Ecli

Answer 1

Hibernate.dialect property tells Hibernate to generate the appropriate SQL statements for the chosen database.

A list of available dialects can be found here: http://javamanikandan.blogspot.in/2014/05/sql-dialects-in-hibernate.html

RDBMS                   Dialect
DB2                     org.hibernate.dialect.DB2Dialect
DB2 AS/400              org.hibernate.dialect.DB2400Dialect
DB2 OS390               org.hibernate.dialect.DB2390Dialect
PostgreSQL              org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect
MySQL                   org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
MySQL with InnoDB       org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect
MySQL with MyISAM       org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLMyISAMDialect
Oracle (any version)    org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect
Oracle 9i/10g           org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9Dialect
Sybase                  org.hibernate.dialect.SybaseDialect
Sybase Anywhere         org.hibernate.dialect.SybaseAnywhereDialect
Microsoft SQL Server    org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect
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