[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Resolved: (HHH-5857) SQLServer dialect for varbinary incorrect for 2008

SQLServer dialect for varbinary incorrect for 2008 -------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-5857 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-5857 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.6.0 Reporter: Steve Mactaggart Assignee: Gail Badner In SQLServer 2008 the IMAGE data type has been deprecated and replaced with VARBINARY(MAX) {quote} ntext, text, and image data types will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using these data types in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use them. Use nvarchar(max), varchar(max), and varbinary(max) instead. For more information, see Using Large-Value Data Types. {quote} The current SQLServer2008Dialect has the mapping (inherirted from SQLServerDialect): {code} registerColumnType( Types.VARBINARY, "image" ); {code} This needs to be reverted to use VARBINARY. {code} registerColumnType( Types.VARBINARY, "varbinary" ); {code} The issue is identified when using hibernate.ddl.auto=validate, it shows an error such as: {quote} Wrong column type in Database.dbo.BINARY_OBJECT for column BYTES. Found: varbinary, expected: image {quote} for an annotated fields such as: {code} @Column(name = "BYTES", length = 100000, nullable = true) private byte[] bytes; {code}