how to check if tables and columns exist

mchyzer · **Joined:** Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:16 pm **Posts:** 143

I thought I saw something about a feature where it checks the DB to see if the columns and tables exist that are referenced from the mapping documents. How can I utilize this feature (if it exists)?

Thanks,
Chris

andresgr · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:55 pm

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... etguide-s1

Maybe what you want is:

<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>

in hibernate.cfg.xml

Siegbert · **Joined:** Mon Jan 05, 2004 11:04 am **Posts:** 16

Hi,

if you only want to validate try better this

<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">validate</property>