diff --git a/config/alfresco/domain/hibernate-cfg.properties b/config/alfresco/domain/hibernate-cfg.properties
index 7fb803806a..6d8cd408a0 100644
--- a/config/alfresco/domain/hibernate-cfg.properties
+++ b/config/alfresco/domain/hibernate-cfg.properties
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 hibernate.jdbc.use_streams_for_binary=true
 hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
 hibernate.show_sql=false
-hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update
+hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=verify
 hibernate.cache.use_query_cache=true
 hibernate.max_fetch_depth=10
 hibernate.cache.provider_class=org.alfresco.repo.cache.InternalEhCacheManagerFactoryBean
diff --git a/config/alfresco/extension/custom-hibernate-dialect.properties.sample b/config/alfresco/extension/custom-hibernate-dialect.properties.sample
index c78650c3e8..2dbdd235dd 100644
--- a/config/alfresco/extension/custom-hibernate-dialect.properties.sample
+++ b/config/alfresco/extension/custom-hibernate-dialect.properties.sample
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# Sample Hibernate configuration to enable Hibernate schema updates
+#hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update
+
 #
 # Sample Hibernate configuration for changing Database dialect
 #