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Protecting production data in non-production environments

Grant Fritchey discusses the need to ‘shift left’ the database and associated database testing, while keeping sensitive data secure when it is outside the production environment, and how SQL Provision can help you achieve this. Read more

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Basic data masking for development work using SQL Clone and SQL Data Generator

Richard Macaskill describes a lightweight copy-and-generate approach for making a sanitized database build available to development teams, using SQL Clone, SQL Change Automation and SQL Data Generator. Read more

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How to build-and-fill multiple development databases using PowerShell and SQL Data Generator

This article offers a build-and-fill method for development databases, where each developer will subsequently want to alter the data or metadata in his or her copy of the database. Read more

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How to Automatically Fill your SQL Server Test Databases with Dummy Data

A PowerShell script to automatically populate a SQL Server database with dummy data, for database development and testing work. Read more

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How to generate realistic text data using SQL Data Generator

To get the best results, you need to provide SQL Data Generator with some hints on how the data ought to look. Phil Factor nudges it towards realistic text data. Read more

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Generating realistic dates using SQL Data Generator and Python

How to generate more realistic dates, in your SQL Server test data. Read more

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How to Generate Fake Test Data for SQL Server

How to use a SQL random data generator to fill SQL Server tables with realistic test data, to shift left database unit testing, integration testing and performance testing so that it is performed during the early stages of database development. Read more

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Generating test data with localized addresses using SQL Data Generator

With basic grasp of regex expressions, a tool like SQL Data Generator can generate test data with addresses that are realistic for your part of the world. Read more

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Protecting production data in non-production environments

Basic data masking for development work using SQL Clone and SQL Data Generator

How to build-and-fill multiple development databases using PowerShell and SQL Data Generator

How to Automatically Fill your SQL Server Test Databases with Dummy Data

How to generate realistic text data using SQL Data Generator

Generating realistic dates using SQL Data Generator and Python

How to Generate Fake Test Data for SQL Server

Generating test data with localized addresses using SQL Data Generator

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Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional

Security and compliance

Database monitoring and observability

Database change management

Productivity and workflow automation

AI data readiness

Database modernization

Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

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Redgate Monitor

SQL Toolbelt Essentials

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