diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServer2012Dialect.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServer2012Dialect.java
index 6cfb6bed5175..e5a32322a24a 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServer2012Dialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServer2012Dialect.java
@@ -49,7 +49,18 @@ public String getSequenceNextValString(String sequenceName) {
 	@Override
 	public String getQuerySequencesString() {
 		// The upper-case name is necessary here so that both case-sensitive and case-insensitive collations work
-		return "select * from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SEQUENCES";
+
+		// Internally, SQL server stores start_value, minimum_value, maximum_value, and increment
+		// in sql_variant columns. SQL Server's JDBC automatically converts these values
+		// to bigint. Vert.X does support sql_variant columns, so these columns need to be
+		// explicitly converted here.
+
+		return "select sequence_name, sequence_catalog, sequence_schema, " +
+				"convert( bigint, start_value ) as start_value, " +
+				"convert( bigint, minimum_value ) as minimum_value, " +
+				"convert( bigint, maximum_value ) as maximum_value, " +
+				"convert( bigint, increment ) as increment " +
+				"from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SEQUENCES";
 	}
 
 	@Override
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServerDialect.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServerDialect.java
index 96bf1aa0a0a3..0a7f86461f06 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServerDialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/SQLServerDialect.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.spi.IdentifierCaseStrategy;
 import org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.spi.IdentifierHelper;
 import org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.spi.IdentifierHelperBuilder;
+import org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.spi.NameQualifierSupport;
 import org.hibernate.type.StandardBasicTypes;
 import org.hibernate.type.StringType;
 import org.hibernate.type.Type;
@@ -117,6 +118,8 @@ public IdentifierHelper buildIdentifierHelper(
 			IdentifierHelperBuilder builder, DatabaseMetaData dbMetaData) throws SQLException {
 
 		if ( dbMetaData == null ) {
+			// TODO: if DatabaseMetaData != null, unquoted case strategy is set to IdentifierCaseStrategy.UPPER
+			//       Check to see if this setting is correct.
 			builder.setUnquotedCaseStrategy( IdentifierCaseStrategy.MIXED );
 			builder.setQuotedCaseStrategy( IdentifierCaseStrategy.MIXED );
 		}
@@ -248,4 +251,10 @@ public String getCreateTemporaryTableColumnAnnotation(int sqlTypeCode) {
 				return "";
 		}
 	}
+
+	@Override
+	public NameQualifierSupport getNameQualifierSupport() {
+		return NameQualifierSupport.BOTH;
+	}
+
 }