Is NHibernate SchemaUpdate safe in production code?

Question

For simplicity\'s sake. I\'m using Fluent NHibernate\'s Automapping combined with NHibernate\'s SchemaUpdate during runtime. On each run Automapper creates mappings for all enti

Answer 1

For this to be able to run in production code, the account that the production application uses to connect to your database would have to have permission to change the database schema.

That alone should deter you from this approach, irrespective of the quality/reliability of the NHibernate code.