[hibernate-dev] How do I determine that the underlying database is a MySQL database?

[Steve Ebersole]

You would use java.sql.DatabaseMetaData which is exactly what Hibernate is 
using to detemine the dialect to use.

And this is not a help forum, this is a mailing list to discuss the 
development of Hibernate.

On Friday, April 01, 2011, at 10:12 am, Tom Muldoon wrote:
> I currently do not specify the hibernate.dialect in my configuration (which
> means Hibernate must be determining the dialect based upon my url, right?)
> but even if I did, I don't know how to get the property value at runtime.
> Whatever the case, what's the best way to determine the underlying
> database at runtime?
> 
> Thanks in advance, Tom
> 
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