Does Hibernate create tables in the database automatically

Question

Upon reading this (archived) tutorial, they have not mentioned anything over creating tables in the DB. Does the Hibernate handle it automatically by creating tables and fie

Answer 1

If property hibernate.ddl-auto = update, then it will not create the tables automatically. To create tables automatically, you need to set the property to hibernate.ddl-auto = create

The list of option which is used in the spring boot 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

• none: is all other cases

So for the first time you can set it to create and then next time on-wards you should set it to update.