diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/Oracle9iDialect.java b/core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/Oracle9iDialect.java
index a99c1aba90..c6d8a45292 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/Oracle9iDialect.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/Oracle9iDialect.java
@@ -131,8 +131,11 @@ public class Oracle9iDialect extends Oracle8iDialect {
 	 * HHH-4907, I don't know if oracle 8 supports this syntax, so I'd think it is better add this 
 	 * method here. Reopen this issue if you found/know 8 supports it.
 	 */
-    public boolean supportsRowValueConstructorSyntaxInInList() {
-        return true;
-    }
-	
+	public boolean supportsRowValueConstructorSyntaxInInList() {
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	public boolean supportsTupleDistinctCounts() {
+		return false;
+	}	
 }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServerDialect.java b/core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServerDialect.java
index 4c9a44baf9..fa7e5b0ae1 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServerDialect.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServerDialect.java
@@ -164,4 +164,8 @@ public class SQLServerDialect extends AbstractTransactSQLDialect {
 	public boolean doesRepeatableReadCauseReadersToBlockWriters() {
 		return false; // here assume SQLServer2005 using snapshot isolation, which does not have this problem
 	}
+
+	public boolean supportsTupleDistinctCounts() {
+		return false;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/testsuite/src/test/java/org/hibernate/test/hql/CriteriaHQLAlignmentTest.java b/testsuite/src/test/java/org/hibernate/test/hql/CriteriaHQLAlignmentTest.java
index bd8664aadd..6b1018dca8 100644
--- a/testsuite/src/test/java/org/hibernate/test/hql/CriteriaHQLAlignmentTest.java
+++ b/testsuite/src/test/java/org/hibernate/test/hql/CriteriaHQLAlignmentTest.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package org.hibernate.test.hql;
 import java.math.BigDecimal;
 import java.math.BigInteger;
 import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
 
 import junit.framework.Test;
 
@@ -33,6 +34,12 @@ public class CriteriaHQLAlignmentTest extends QueryTranslatorTestCase {
 		SelectClause.VERSION2_SQL = true;
 	}
 
+	public String[] getMappings() {
+			return new String[] {
+					"hql/Animal.hbm.xml",
+			};
+	}
+
 	public boolean createSchema() {
 		return true; // needed for the Criteria return type test
 	}
@@ -119,6 +126,7 @@ public class CriteriaHQLAlignmentTest extends QueryTranslatorTestCase {
 	// HHH-1724 Align Criteria with HQL aggregation return types.
 	public void testCriteriaAggregationReturnType() {
 		Session s = openSession();
+		s.beginTransaction();
 		Human human = new Human();
 		human.setBigIntegerValue( new BigInteger("42") );
 		human.setBigDecimalValue( new BigDecimal(45) );
@@ -172,6 +180,7 @@ public class CriteriaHQLAlignmentTest extends QueryTranslatorTestCase {
 		
 		s.delete( human );
 		s.flush();
+		s.getTransaction().commit();
 		s.close();
 	}
 
@@ -224,7 +233,7 @@ public class CriteriaHQLAlignmentTest extends QueryTranslatorTestCase {
 				.setProjection( Projections.count( "nickName" ).setDistinct() )
 				.uniqueResult();
 		assertEquals( 2, count.longValue() );
-		s.clear();
+		s.close();
 
 		s = openSession();
 		t = s.beginTransaction();
@@ -336,5 +345,4 @@ public class CriteriaHQLAlignmentTest extends QueryTranslatorTestCase {
 		t.commit();
 		s.close();
 	}
-
 }