I have just upgraded our software stack to Hibernate 5.4.2 final because we are trying to switch to Java 11. When starting our application I get the following error:
INFO: HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServer2012Dialect
Mar 28, 2019 10:29:00 AM org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentImpl sequenceInformationList
ERROR: Could not fetch the SequenceInformation from the database
com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The "variant" data type is not supported.
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.makeFromDriverError(SQLServerException.java:191)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TypeInfo$Builder$16.apply(dtv.java:2458)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TypeInfo$Builder.build(dtv.java:2620)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TypeInfo.getInstance(dtv.java:2683)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.StreamColumns.setFromTDS(StreamColumns.java:43)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerResultSet$1CursorInitializer.onColMetaData(SQLServerResultSet.java:216)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSParser.parse(tdsparser.java:74)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerResultSet.<init>(SQLServerResultSet.java:310)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.getNextResult(SQLServerStatement.java:1646)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.doExecuteStatement(SQLServerStatement.java:865)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement$StmtExecCmd.doExecute(SQLServerStatement.java:762)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSCommand.execute(IOBuffer.java:6276)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.executeCommand(SQLServerConnection.java:1793)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeCommand(SQLServerStatement.java:184)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeStatement(SQLServerStatement.java:159)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeQuery(SQLServerStatement.java:661)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyStatement.executeQuery(NewProxyStatement.java:220)
at org.hibernate.tool.schema.extract.internal.SequenceInformationExtractorLegacyImpl.extractMetadata(SequenceInformationExtractorLegacyImpl.java:42)
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentImpl.sequenceInformationList(JdbcEnvironmentImpl.java:403)
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentImpl.<init>(JdbcEnvironmentImpl.java:268)
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.initiateService(JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.java:114)
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.initiateService(JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.java:35)
at org.hibernate.boot.registry.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.initiateService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:101)
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.createService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:263)
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:237)
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:214)
at org.hibernate.id.factory.internal.DefaultIdentifierGeneratorFactory.injectServices(DefaultIdentifierGeneratorFactory.java:152)
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.injectDependencies(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:286)
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:243)
at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:214)
at org.hibernate.boot.internal.InFlightMetadataCollectorImpl.<init>(InFlightMetadataCollectorImpl.java:175)
at org.hibernate.boot.model.process.spi.MetadataBuildingProcess.complete(MetadataBuildingProcess.java:118)
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.metadata(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:900)
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.build(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:931)
at org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistenceProvider.java:56)
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:79)
...
The underlying database is SQL Server 2012 and we are using the Microsoft JDBC driver. Any suggestions on how to work around this error would be much appreciated.