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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 |