Still a problem in current hibernate. My workaround is to use a custom dialect: public class FitOracle9iDialect extends Oracle9iDialect { | public String getHibernateTypeName(int code, int length, int precision, int scale) throws HibernateException { | if (code == Types.CHAR && length > 1) { | return "string"; | } | return super.getHibernateTypeName(code, length, precision, scale); | } | } Other dialects have the same problem. There probably is a cleaner way to configure the dialect, but this seems to work fine for me. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4212920#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...