Setting up the H2 Database

In this lesson, we will set up the in-memory H2 database. Let’s have a look the required steps:

Configuring database connection

• The in-memory database H2 has automatically been configured in our application. The URL of the database can be found from the console log. This value is randomly generated each time the server is restarted. To make the database URL a constant, we need to configure this in application.properties as follows: