"timfox" wrote : Can you give examples/ pointers on how you would use Hibernate to just get the DB specific SQL? Tim, i'm not suppoed to have/implement any vendor specific SQL. we'll be compromising the main purpose of using HBN/JPA on JBM, which is to abstract different vendor specific DDL and DML stuff. at each different DB implementations, all you have to change is the HBN dialect. nothing more, nothing less. :) Tyronne Wickramarathne View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4112455#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...