I have deployed an application with hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto = create and found that many of my tables were dropped! I used to do the same thing but using EclipseLink instead of Hibernate, the database return table already exists witch means that it only launchs the create table. I suspect that having hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto set to "create" if dropping and then create the table.
any one can confirm my doubts? Thanks for help.