What are hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto values?

validate | update | create | create-drop

• validate- existing schema
• update- only update your schema once created
• create- create schema every time

hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto Automatically validates or exports schema

DDL to the database when the

SessionFactory is created. With create-drop,

the database schema will be dropped

when the SessionFactory is closed explicitly.

e.g. validate | update | create | createdrop