I am sorry for creating a new post since I guess this topic has been posted before but the search gave 4000 results :)

I was looking for a "create database" topic. In my application I can switch between several databases and I let Hibernate create and update my tables.
Now I have a problem with mysql: the tables are created as desired but before I have to set an "create database foobar" manually to mysql (with Derby for example all works fine). If I am not doing so I am getting the Exception "Database 'FooBar' not found".

Is there an option in Hibernate to force a create database statement (in case of Derby I guess its done automatically by Derby and not by Hibernate)?