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Posted by Shubham Aggarwal
Shubham Aggarwal
800 Points

What other values can be used for property "hbm2ddl.auto" in hibernate.cfg.xml?

What about other values for "hbm2ddl.auto" property in hibernate.cfg.xml file?

1 Answer

Shubham Aggarwal
Shubham Aggarwal
800 Points

Adding the answer myself.

Property hbm2ddl.auto can have other values like create, create-drop and update.

Though course shows use of create value, I prefer the update value instead. What happens with create is, whenever you run the application, database is dropped and again made and so, deleting all the previous data present in it. WIth update value, Hibernate first checks if the database already exists. If it does, it will just update it with any new columns you might have added later, without deleting the previous added data.