Re: Generating fake databases
From: Bob Badour <bob_at_badour.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:08:14 -0700
Message-ID: <ZJ-dnQVn672YhQXTnZ2dnUVZ5uidnZ2d_at_giganews.com>
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> Perhaps I deserve this kind of response, but I will repeat my initial
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> "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?"
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> Once I have found such resources, read them, and familiarized myself
> with the state-of-the-art and indeed the established terminology, I may
> well come back here with questions in which I will provide all the
> information anyone could want. But for now I just want suggestions for
> reading.
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:08:14 -0700
Message-ID: <ZJ-dnQVn672YhQXTnZ2dnUVZ5uidnZ2d_at_giganews.com>
Roy Hann wrote:
>>On Oct 14, 2:48 am, Roy Hann <specia..._at_processed.almost.meat> wrote: >> >>>I fear you may be somewhat dazzled by the clarity of your own vision of >>>the solution. >> >>(Groan) >> >>Well, the prospects are always brighter when one knows what one wants, >>then people who feel inclined to help you can actually do so. But >>never mind, we will drag it out of you, no matter what it takes. We >>do not have crystal balls, so it may take a bit of to-ing and fro-ing.
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>>Anyway, contemplate that for a while, and see if you can provide a few >>more words specifying exactly what you want, in the creation of >>"synthetic but plausible/realistic" "data" that "satisfies >>constraints" but nothing else. We will delight in whatever scraps of >>information we receive from you, and we will jump at the chance of >>dragging a few more scraps out of you tomorrow.
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> Perhaps I deserve this kind of response, but I will repeat my initial
> request, which in all honesty seems pretty unobjectionable to me:
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> "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?"
>
> Once I have found such resources, read them, and familiarized myself
> with the state-of-the-art and indeed the established terminology, I may
> well come back here with questions in which I will provide all the
> information anyone could want. But for now I just want suggestions for
> reading.
I am unaware of anything, but it's not like I have been looking for anything like that. Received on Fri Oct 14 2011 - 13:08:14 CEST