I would like to remove the ability to select 'Drop and Create table' so that it's not something that could ever be chosen from Talend Studio, but I don't find a way to do this. Any suggestions?
You can modify the tMaxDBOutput_java.xml file and remove this item, the source files of component are located in <Talend Studio installation directory>\plugins\org.talend.designer.components.localprovider_8.0.1.20211104_0248\components\tMaxDBOutput
After you modify the source file, restart Talend Studio to reload the changes.