Hello: Pardon me if it has been answered before but I could not find via different searches on Hibernate or Google. createSQLQuery("select * from A,B where <condition>").iterate() /scroll() to get earch row and do processing. the doc says the above returns Object[] , which is great except that but there is no public API  to access the  ResultSetMetaData  even though the doc says it uses it to derive column info. I wonder if this object could be exposed. Thanks in advance.