This MySQL hibernate.cfg.xml example includes optional settings to generate and format SQL as well as an instruction to create database tables if any entity beans require them. You can find the source ...

Another issue I see quite regularly is developers reference example MySQL JPA persistence.xml files that use the older com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. If a developer executes queries against a MySQL 8 database ...

It barfs them out straight to the console, so you'll need to redirect its output to a file for a normal backup—in the above example, to /home/jim/mysqlbackup.mysql. If you want to get a little ...