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Hibernate hbm2ddl.auto possible values and what they do?

Anonymous User270514-Jul-2015
I really want to know more about the update, export and the values that could be given to hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto
I need to know when to use the update and when not? And what is the alternative?

These are changes that could happen over DB:

  1. New tables
  2. new columns in old tables
  3. columns deleted
  4. data type of a column changed
  5. a type of a column changed it attributes
  6. tables have been dropped
  7. values of a column has changed
  8. In each case what is the best solution?
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Updated on 14-Jul-2015
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14-Jul-2015
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 the database.
update: update the schema.
create: creates the schema, destroying previous data.
create-drop: drop the schema at the end of the session.

The configuration property is called hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto

In our development environment we set hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=create-drop to drop and create a clean database each time we deploy, so that our database is in a known state.

In theory, you can set hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update to update your database with changes to your model, but I would not trust that on a production database. An earlier version of the documentation said that this was experimental, at least; I do not know the current status.

Therefore, for our production database, do not set hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto - the default is to make no database changes. Instead, we manually create an SQL DDL update script that applies changes from one version to the next. 

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