Test Data Generation

Databases
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I’m about to start work on a new asset management (finance) project for which I will need to generate a lot of meaningful test data: clients, positions, financial instruments, prices, exchange rates etc. in large volumes.

Anyway among the Black Friday spam l found a company called Devart who are offering their MySQL tool dbForge Data Generator for about 80 CHF and I was just wondering if anyone has any experience of it or can recommend a similar tool.

Thanks,

James

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James, I don’t know about dbForge, but I’ve used a tool called Randommite very successfully in the past to generate test data. it’s xplat and free to boot.

3

Sounds interesting I will have a look. Thanks for the tip.

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I haven’t used it myself yet, but one of my colleagues speaks very highly of GenerateData.com.

Hope it helps.

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I’ve used yan Data to generate random database loads and CSV files to test importers.
Lots of output options.