NHibernate: forcing square brackets in schema export?

Question

Is there a way to tell NHibernate to use square brackets for all table and column names (like [MyColumn]) when generating the SQL schema export for MS SQL Serve

Answer 1

You need to use (or write) the correct dialect for your database

Answer 2

Use backticks in your mapping files around the column names. NH should replace these with the correct character for your db dialect (in your case square brackets).

i.e. use:

<class name="SomeClass" table="`SomeTable`">

NB - It won't work with an apostrophe. The backtick is located top left on most keyboards.

Answer 3

Easier approach:

SchemaMetadataUpdater.QuoteTableAndColumns(config)

(Before building SessionFactory)

That will quote all the reserved names automatically.