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

Dialect is the SQL dialect that your database uses.

List of SQL dialects for Hibernate.

Either provide it in hibernate.cfg.xml as :

   
      org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect
       ...
   

or in the properties file as :

hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect