@Entity
public class Member {
private Long id;
private String name;

@Column(columnDefinition = "TEXT")
private String biography;

private String country;
private String state;
private String city;
private Date dateOfBirth;
private String gender;

//Getters and setters

spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=create-drop
spring.jpa.show-sql=true
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/wave
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=mysql
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
spring.h2.console.enabled=true

Hibernate: drop table if exists member
Hibernate: create table member (id bigint not null auto_increment, biography varchar(255), city varchar(255), country varchar(255), date_of_birth date, gender varchar(255), name varchar(255), state varchar(255), primary key (id)) ENGINE=InnoDB

registerColumnType( Types.CLOB, 65535, "text" );

@Column(length = 65535, columnDefinition = "text")
private String biography;