Use Y/N for booleans on Oracle instead of number ------------------------------------------------ Key: HHH-1085 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1085 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Christian Bauer Priority: Trivial Consider using char(1) and Y/N as the default boolean type for Oracle (which doesn't have a boolean datatype...) http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/oracle/0,39044900,39256906,00.htm