I'm NOT completely sure, but you migth try to comment the next line in your hibernate.cfg.xml file: | <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property> | Also, you could use another user (with no provileges to create, drop, alter tables) to connect to your database, since the behavior you're seeing is being done by Hibernate (as far as I know, it's updating your database according your hibernate mappings, and is doing it by droping tables, in order to create the new tables). Hope this helps. Regards. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993897#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...