@Chris If it helps, I am running into this on 5.2.10 trying to the the "jpab" benchmark from the oltpbenchmark project.

The oltpbench/jpab benchmark is setup to use Hibernate 3.x, so I was converting it to use Hibernate 5 when I ran in to this issue. I am using SQL Server via the official Microsoft Docker image.

I am attaching a patch file for the oltpbench project to bring it up to Hibernate 5.

You'll need to copy the Hibernate 5 jars into the lib/hibernate directory and remove the Hibernate 3 related jars there. Also, the patch includes switching from c3p0 to HikariCP, which you can either ignore or drop in the HikariCP jar – it does not affect the result.

Here are the steps to reproduce, in summary:

docker run -e 'ACCEPT_EULA=Y' -e 'SA_PASSWORD=YourStrong!Passw0rd' -p 1433:1433 -d microsoft/mssql-server-linux

Connect to SQL Server with any JDBC-client and run "CREATE DATABASE jpab".

./oltpbenchmark -b jpab -config config/sample_jpab_config.xml --load=true --execute=true -s 1 -o jpab-results