diff --git a/spring-security-oauth/src/main/java/org/baeldung/config/PersistenceJPAConfig.java b/spring-security-oauth/src/main/java/org/baeldung/config/PersistenceJPAConfig.java
index 5675768a49..0430658599 100644
--- a/spring-security-oauth/src/main/java/org/baeldung/config/PersistenceJPAConfig.java
+++ b/spring-security-oauth/src/main/java/org/baeldung/config/PersistenceJPAConfig.java
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ public class PersistenceJPAConfig {
 
     final Properties additionalProperties() {
         final Properties hibernateProperties = new Properties();
-        hibernateProperties.setProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", env.getProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto"));
+        hibernateProperties.setProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", env.getProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "create-drop"));
         hibernateProperties.setProperty("hibernate.dialect", env.getProperty("hibernate.dialect"));
         return hibernateProperties;
     }
diff --git a/spring-security-oauth/src/main/resources/.gitignore b/spring-security-oauth/src/main/resources/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a7fddd4cfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-security-oauth/src/main/resources/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+persistence.properties
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-security-oauth/src/main/resources/persistence.properties b/spring-security-oauth/src/main/resources/persistence.properties.sample
similarity index 100%
rename from spring-security-oauth/src/main/resources/persistence.properties
rename to spring-security-oauth/src/main/resources/persistence.properties.sample