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Building Better Test Data with SQL Provision
Steve Jones show how a team might use SQL Provision to build consistent, compliant, useful databases, on demand, for development and test environments. Read more
Pseudonymizing your data with SQL Data Generator
Starting from a database view, as the basis for a typical sales reports, Phil factor shows how to generate a data-masked version of this report, which the Tax Men can safely pore over. Read more
Effective Database Testing with SQL Test and SQL Cover
Julia Hayward describes the basics of how SQL Test’s code coverage can help uncover the darker, untested paths in your database code. Read more
How to Test SQL Server Functions and Procedures using SQL Prompt
Phil Factor shows how to create a table of input values versus expected results, and then use it to unit test your SQL stored procedures and functions and verify that they always produce the correct results. He uses SQL Prompt to make this task much simpler. Read moreRealistic, simulated data for testing, development and prototypes
Generating realistic test data is a challenging task, made even more complex if you need to generate that data in different formats, for the different database technologies in use within your organization. Dave Poole proposes a solution that uses SQL Data Generator as a ‘data generation and translation’ tool. Read moreGenerating test data in JSON files using SQL Data Generator
Phil Factor shows how to use SQL Data Generator to produce as much pseudonymized data as you are likely to need for your testing, and then convert it to JSON so that you can also use it to test your MongoDB and Azure Cosmos databases, or to test out a new web service. Read moreBasic 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 moreHow 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 moreHow 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 moreRedgate Hub
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