diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/Dialect.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/Dialect.java
index 4685e15621..79ecec5309 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/Dialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/Dialect.java
@@ -2450,6 +2450,19 @@ public abstract class Dialect implements ConversionContext {
 		return false;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Is this dialect known to support  what ANSI-SQL terms "row value constructor" syntax, 
+	 * sometimes called tuple syntax, in the SET clause;
+	 * <p/>
+	 * Basically, does it support syntax like
+	 * "... SET (FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME) = ('Steve', 'Ebersole') ...".
+	 *
+	 * @return True if this SQL dialect is known to support "row value constructor" syntax in the SET clause; false otherwise.
+	 */
+	public boolean supportsRowValueConstructorSyntaxInSet() {
+		return supportsRowValueConstructorSyntax();
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * If the dialect supports {@link #supportsRowValueConstructorSyntax() row values},
 	 * does it offer such support in IN lists as well?
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/MySQLDialect.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/MySQLDialect.java
index 8eb757667e..75b7d66f62 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/MySQLDialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/MySQLDialect.java
@@ -457,6 +457,11 @@ public class MySQLDialect extends Dialect {
 		return true;
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	public boolean supportsRowValueConstructorSyntaxInSet() {
+		return false;
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public String renderOrderByElement(String expression, String collation, String order, NullPrecedence nulls) {
 		final StringBuilder orderByElement = new StringBuilder();
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/hql/internal/ast/tree/BinaryLogicOperatorNode.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/hql/internal/ast/tree/BinaryLogicOperatorNode.java
index 49fbdde66d..bbe94719c3 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/hql/internal/ast/tree/BinaryLogicOperatorNode.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/hql/internal/ast/tree/BinaryLogicOperatorNode.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import java.util.Arrays;
 
 import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
 import org.hibernate.TypeMismatchException;
+import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect;
 import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionFactoryImplementor;
 import org.hibernate.hql.internal.antlr.HqlSqlTokenTypes;
 import org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.QuerySyntaxException;
@@ -81,13 +82,20 @@ public class BinaryLogicOperatorNode extends AbstractSelectExpression implements
 			if ( lhsColumnSpan > 1 ) {
 				// for dialects which are known to not support ANSI-SQL row-value-constructor syntax,
 				// we should mutate the tree.
-				if ( !sessionFactory.getDialect().supportsRowValueConstructorSyntax() ) {
+				if ( !useRowValueConstructorSyntax( sessionFactory.getDialect() ) ) {
 					mutateRowValueConstructorSyntax( lhsColumnSpan );
 				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
 
+	private boolean useRowValueConstructorSyntax(Dialect dialect) {
+		if ( isInsideSetClause() ) {
+			return dialect.supportsRowValueConstructorSyntaxInSet();
+		}
+		return dialect.supportsRowValueConstructorSyntax();
+	}
+
 	private int getColumnSpan(Type type, SessionFactoryImplementor sfi) {
 		int columnSpan = type.getColumnSpan( sfi );
 		if ( columnSpan == 0 && type instanceof OneToOneType ) {