Hibernate does not create tables automatically

Question

I have Maven project with Hibernate and Spring framework. I want Hibernate to create tables automatically, but all existing tables are just dropped and the required tables are not created. No exceptions are thrown during session factory initialization, but when I try save a Player entity, exception is thrown:

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Table 'billboarddb.player' doesn't exist

If I create the tables manually and change the property hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto to "validate", then everything works fine. Do you have any idea, why Hibernate does not create the tables?

Spring configuration file:

<context:component-scan  base-package="org.meluk.billboard.business.controller" />
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager" />
<bean id="propertyConfigurer"  class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <property name="locations" >
        <list>
            <value>/WEB-INF/config/jdbc.properties</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
    <property name="driverClassName" value="${hibernate.connection.driver_class}" />
    <property name="url" value="${hibernate.connection.url}" />
    <property name="username" value="${hibernate.connection.username}" />
    <property name="password" value="${hibernate.connection.password}" />
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean" >
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    <property name="configLocation" value="/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml" />
    <property name="packagesToScan" value="org.meluk.billboard.jpa" />
    <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.show_sql}</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">${hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto}</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.min_size">${hibernate.c3p0.min_size}</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.max_size">${hibernate.c3p0.max_size}</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">${hibernate.c3p0.timeout}</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.max_statements">${hibernate.c3p0.max_statements}</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
</bean>

<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
    <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>

jdbc.properties file:

hibernate.connection.driver_class=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/BillboardDB
hibernate.connection.username=root
hibernate.connection.password=1234
hibernate.default_schema=BillboardDB
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect
hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=create
hibernate.show_sql=true
hibernate.c3p0.min_size=5
hibernate.c3p0.max_size=20
hibernate.c3p0.timeout=1800
hibernate.c3p0.max_statements=50

Hibernate dependencies:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
  <version>${hibernateVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-c3p0</artifactId>
  <version>${hibernateVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-tools</artifactId>
  <version>${hibernateToolsVersion}</version>
</dependency>

Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4507142/does-hibernate-create-tables-in-the-database-automatically — d1e, Jul 02 '12 at 10:37
Just to give you an idea. If everything is properly configured Check your dialect settings for your database — Karesh A, Jul 02 '12 at 10:43
How have you defined the enitity, Player? Can you put the code snippet. — Chandra, Jul 02 '12 at 12:29
I don't think this question should be closed ! It is so relevant and helped me a lot ! — Adelin, Feb 09 '15 at 18:05

score 30 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 14 '14 at 18:43

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I solve the problem. Hibernate could not create tables with MysqlInnoDBDialect. Now I use MySQL5InnoDBDialect instead.

edited Nov 14 '14 at 18:43

Bleeding Fingers

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answered Jul 02 '12 at 13:07

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I used `MySQLDialect` before and changed it to `MySQL5Dialect` (added the '5'). Did the job, too. – Froxx Sep 29 '17 at 21:43

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 02 '12 at 10:42

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Add the following entry to the hibernateProperties props.

<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>

answered Jul 02 '12 at 10:42

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I defined it: "${hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto}" – Balconsky Jul 02 '12 at 10:43
y it is throwing "com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException" ? is mappings are all correct ? – Akhi Jul 02 '12 at 10:46
you have put show sql as true right ? take the scripts comming in the logs and run them directly using your db client. see if it has problems. – Akhi Jul 02 '12 at 10:53
I do not see any sql for drop or create tables. There is only:"INFO: Hibernate: insert into Player (age, email, password) values (?, ?, ?)" – Balconsky Jul 02 '12 at 10:59

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