title: HIbernate creating database table
body: <p>I am in the process of learning JPA  - Hibernate.</p>
  
  <p>I am following this <a href="http://uaihebert.com/?p=57" rel="nofollow">article</a>
  In Dog.java it is mentioned as <code>@Table(name = "dog")</code>.
   In <code>persistence.xml</code> I have the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does this creates table dog in database? I have not created table Dog in database. So in production environment this could be dangerous though. In such scenarios what should be ideal value for  <code>hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto</code>?</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>