How to disable Hibernate validation in a Spring Boot project
Solution 1:
As [M. Deinum] mentioned in a comment on my original post, the solution is to set:
spring.jpa.properties.javax.persistence.validation.mode=none
In the application.properties file.
Additionally, this behaviour is described here (its easy to miss because no example is provided).
Solution 2:
@Erin Drummond's Answer is for database entity validation (individual records)
But if someone ran into a problem with schema validation below property works well.
# Hibernate ddl auto (create, create-drop, validate, update, none)
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=none