You can set the dialect in the hibernate.cfg.xml files located at: jboss-portal.sar/conf/hibernate/instance/ jboss-portal.sar/conf/hibernate/portal/ jboss-portal.sar/conf/hibernate/portlet/ jboss-portal.sar/conf/hibernate/user/ jboss-portal.sar/portal-cms.sar/conf/hibernate/cms/ Were the tables actually created? You should have about 83 tables. Did you make any changes to jboss-portal.sar/conf/hibernate/user/setup.txt? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4192319#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...