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SQL Toolbelt Database Testing
How to create and refresh development and test databases automatically using SQL Clone and SQL Toolbelt
A PowerShell automation script to build a SQL Server database from source control, seed it with dummy data, document it, and then deploy copies to any number of test and development servers. Read more
Build and fill a database using JSON and SQL Change Automation
Phil Factor demonstrates how to export data from a database, as JSON files, validate it using JSON Schema, then build a fresh development copy of the database using SQL Change Automation, and import all the test data from the JSON files. Read morePseudonymizing a Database with Realistic Data for Development Work
How to use SQL Data Generator, and PowerShell to obfuscate personal data (names), while retaining the same distribution of data, so that the test database behaves like the original. Read morePseudonymizing 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 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 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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