Spring Boot + IntelliJ + Embedded Database = Headache

Question

Either I\'m missing some core concept buried deep within some documentation (Spring, Spring Boot, H2, HSQLDB, Derby, IntelliJ) or I\'ve been staring at this for too long.

Answer 1

I had similar problem. It was due to the default create-drop ddl strategy of the hibernate. With this strategy after the application shutdown hibernate destroys the schema at the end of the session, that's why IntelliJ don't show anything. Change ddl strategy to the create and hibernate will create the schema and destroy previous data on the next application startup.

Here is an example of my configuration:

application.yml

spring:
  datasource.url: jdbc:h2:./db/testDb
  jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto: create

IntelliJ database properties

Result