 <p>I just figured it out. You have to include both the schema AND the catalog. The catalog, in my case, is the database name:</p> <pre><code>&lt;table name="TITLE" catalog="hibernatetest" schema="dbo" class="Jeffery_jump"&gt; &lt;primary-key&gt; &lt;generator class="identity"/&gt; &lt;key-column name="id" property="version"/&gt; &lt;/primary-key&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>What's annoying is according to the official hibernate documentation, schema and catalog are optional. Well done, hibernate. Well done.</p>