"christian.bauer(a)jboss.com" wrote : Never! What you do is remove this configuration option completely. Then you generate a DDL file with SQL statements using the Hibernate Tools tasks for Ant. This file is handed over to a professional DBA to clean and deploy on the staging and production databases. | Thanks Christian. For interested folks: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/tools/reference/en/html_single/#d0e1137 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4075264#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...