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SQL Data Generator
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 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 moreHow 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 moreGenerating realistic dates using SQL Data Generator and Python
How to generate more realistic dates, in your SQL Server test data. Read moreGenerating 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 moreRedgate Hub
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