Generating fake databases
From: Roy Hann <specially_at_processed.almost.meat>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:54:42 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <j71aq2$hv$1_at_speranza.aioe.org>
Can anyone point me towards any papers, articles or web pages that discuss efficient techniques for generating large volumes of completely synthetic database content having specified characteristics? I'd settle for pointers to any software tools that might exist.
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:54:42 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <j71aq2$hv$1_at_speranza.aioe.org>
Can anyone point me towards any papers, articles or web pages that discuss efficient techniques for generating large volumes of completely synthetic database content having specified characteristics? I'd settle for pointers to any software tools that might exist.
I am not interested in generating mere random values; I want to efficiently generate plausible/realistic values for multiple tables and the "data" must satisfy my database constraints and have specified distributions of key values.
If it is relevant, assume I want to create databases for an SQL DBMS.
Needless to say I've made a stab at Googling for what I want but I haven't been able to guess effective search terms.
-- RoyReceived on Tue Oct 11 2011 - 13:54:42 CEST