Category Archives: Hibernate

Grails and Microsoft SQL Server – Not so painless when using Unique Constraints – A Pragmatic Work-Around

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Reiner

When porting your Grails application from just about any database to MS SQL Server, four areas come to my mind that require your immediate attention: Primary key generation strategy (not covered here) Case sensitivity and collation issues (not covered here) … Continue reading →

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How to persuade Hibernate to accept Nullable Timestamp Columns for Optimistic Locking

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Reiner

Working on a Grails project that needs to access a legacy database, it proved quite time-consuming to implement optimistic locking in a way that can be handled by Hibernate. Optimistic locking used to be implemented within (legacy) application code and … Continue reading →

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