File based h2 persisted but not loaded in Spring Boot

Question

I made a small application based on Spring Boot:

• spring-boot-starter-web
• spring-boot-starter-data-jpa

The application has simply one do

Answer 1

The default for spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto is create-drop if you use an embedded database. You probably want it to be empty, or just validate (none might work as well but I think that's deprecated by hibernate).