What are the possible values of the Hibernate hbm2ddl.auto configuration and what do they do

From the community documentation: 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 | create-drop So the list of possible options are, validate: validate the schema, makes no changes to … Read more