Spring Projects Issues

**[Sanghyuk Jung](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=benelog)** commented As I mentioned, MyBatis supports a similar feature, it can be a reference. Following examples are from http://www.mybatis.org/mybatis-3/java-api.html . ```java @SelectProvider(type = UserSqlBuilder.class, method = "buildGetUsersByName") List...

**[Jeffrey Wayne Castellow](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=JIRAUSER50698)** commented Use this setting sendStringParametersAsUnicode=true in yml, append to the datasource url : jdbc or in  tomcat "connection-properties:"    

**[Jens Schauder](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=schauder)** commented This should be possible once we have SpEL support: [DATAJDBC-397](https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAJDBC-397)

**[Jeffrey Wayne Castellow](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=JIRAUSER50698)** commented I would like to ask, the reverse, I have just upgraded to  Spring Boot 2.3.2, and I want to to prevent binding to NVARCHAR and instead...

**[Jens Schauder](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=schauder)** commented [jeffreycw1](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jeffreycw1) that is an unrelated issue. Please create a new issue and include a reproducer demonstrating the problem

**[Mauro Molinari](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mauromol)** commented It was a surprise to discover that, contrary to for instance Spring Data JPA, Spring Data JDBC does not support SpEL in `@Query` annotation value. In particular,...

**[AndreyChukhlebov](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=JIRAUSER50826)** commented [Jens Schauder](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=schauder)  Hello! I understand that the problem is not very common, but are there any improvements planned?)

**[Jens Schauder](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=schauder)** commented Do you have an example where the application of converters causes a problem?

**[James Clark](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jamesclark92)** commented It's not a problem per se, just a nice feature to have. If, for instance, dates were stored as integers in the database, then a converter for...

**[Jens Schauder](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=schauder)** commented Thanks for the clarification. That makes sense