You would use java.sql.DatabaseMetaData which is exactly what Hibernate is using to detemine the dialect to use.
And this is not a help forum, this is a mailing list to discuss the development of Hibernate. On Friday, April 01, 2011, at 10:12 am, Tom Muldoon wrote: > I currently do not specify the hibernate.dialect in my configuration (which > means Hibernate must be determining the dialect based upon my url, right?) > but even if I did, I don't know how to get the property value at runtime. > Whatever the case, what's the best way to determine the underlying > database at runtime? > > Thanks in advance, Tom > > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev --- Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> http://hibernate.org _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev