diff --git a/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate12/Data/NHibernate/HibernateAccessor.cs b/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate12/Data/NHibernate/HibernateAccessor.cs
index b7e0b6ee..8ec3ed39 100644
--- a/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate12/Data/NHibernate/HibernateAccessor.cs
+++ b/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate12/Data/NHibernate/HibernateAccessor.cs
@@ -444,15 +444,9 @@ namespace Spring.Data.NHibernate
         /// <returns>
         /// the corresponding DataAccessException instance
         /// </returns>
-        protected virtual DataAccessException ConvertAdoAccessException(ADOException ex) 
+        protected virtual DataAccessException ConvertAdoAccessException(ADOException ex)
         {
-
-            string sqlString = (ex.SqlString != null)
-                ? ex.SqlString.ToString()
-                : string.Empty;
-                return AdoExceptionTranslator.Translate(
-                    "Hibernate operation: " + ex.Message, sqlString, ex.InnerException);            
-
+            return SessionFactoryUtils.ConvertAdoAccessException(AdoExceptionTranslator, ex);         
         }
 
         /// <summary>
diff --git a/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate12/Data/NHibernate/SessionFactoryUtils.cs b/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate12/Data/NHibernate/SessionFactoryUtils.cs
index e14fd451..1cf70172 100644
--- a/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate12/Data/NHibernate/SessionFactoryUtils.cs
+++ b/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate12/Data/NHibernate/SessionFactoryUtils.cs
@@ -401,6 +401,39 @@ namespace Spring.Data.NHibernate
 
         #endregion
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Converts a Hibernate ADOException to a Spring DataAccessExcption, extracting the underlying error code from 
+        /// ADO.NET.  Will extract the ADOException Message and SqlString properties and pass them to the translate method
+        /// of the provided IAdoExceptionTranslator.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="translator">The IAdoExceptionTranslator, may be a user provided implementation as configured on
+        /// HibernateTemplate.
+        /// </param>
+        /// <param name="ex">The ADOException throw</param>
+        /// <returns>The translated DataAccessException or UncategorizedAdoException in case of an error in translation
+        /// itself.</returns>
+        public static DataAccessException ConvertAdoAccessException(IAdoExceptionTranslator translator, ADOException ex)
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                string sqlString = (ex.SqlString != null)
+                                       ? ex.SqlString.ToString()
+                                       : string.Empty;
+                return translator.Translate(
+                    "Hibernate operation: " + ex.Message, sqlString, ex.InnerException);
+            } catch (Exception e)
+            {
+                log.Error("Exception thrown during exception translation. Message = [" + e.Message + "]", e);
+                log.Error("Exception that was attempted to be translated was [" + ex.Message + "]", ex);                
+                if (ex.InnerException != null)
+                {
+                    log.Error("  Inner Exception was [" + ex.InnerException.Message + "]", ex.InnerException);
+                }
+                throw new UncategorizedAdoException(e.Message, "", "", e);
+            }
+
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Convert the given HibernateException to an appropriate exception from the
         /// <code>Spring.Dao</code> hierarchy. Note that it is advisable to
diff --git a/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate20/Data/NHibernate/LocalSessionFactoryObject.cs b/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate20/Data/NHibernate/LocalSessionFactoryObject.cs
index ba903f17..1f521b87 100644
--- a/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate20/Data/NHibernate/LocalSessionFactoryObject.cs
+++ b/src/Spring/Spring.Data.NHibernate20/Data/NHibernate/LocalSessionFactoryObject.cs
@@ -1062,11 +1062,7 @@ namespace Spring.Data.NHibernate
         /// </returns>
         protected virtual DataAccessException ConvertAdoAccessException(ADOException ex)
         {
-
-            string sqlString = (ex.SqlString != null) ? ex.SqlString.ToString() : string.Empty;
-            return AdoExceptionTranslator.Translate(
-                "Hibernate operation: " + ex.Message, sqlString, ex.InnerException);
-
+            return SessionFactoryUtils.ConvertAdoAccessException(AdoExceptionTranslator, ex);            
         }
 
 	    #endregion