Question

When NHibernate logs its SQL, it uses aliases for all the columns it retrieves e.g.

SELECT menuitems0_.menuSectionId as menuSect6_1_

I was just wondering if it’s possible to omit the alias information to make the SQL a bit clearer e.g.

SELECT menuitems.menuSectionId

This would help a lot when I am doing a demonstration to other people, as it will be easier to show them what NHibernate is doing under the hood.

Thanks

Answer 1

I don’t think it is possible to remove aliases but you can make output look a lot nicer if you use ‘FormatSql’ option. Set it to true when configuring session factory

config.SetProperty(Environment.ConnectionString, "...")
config.SetProperty(Environment.ShowSql, "true")
config.SetProperty(Environment.FormatSql, "true")

So the output would look like this:

SELECT
    this_.ID as ID58_0_,
    this_.Name as Name58_0_,
    ...
FROM
    MyTable this_ 
WHERE
    this_.Name = @p0;

Or use NHibernate Profiler for demo purposes.