Re: Generating fake databases

Erwin wrote:

> On 14 okt, 12:11, Roy Hann <specia..._at_processed.almost.meat> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not looking for recipes.  I am looking for research that goes beyond
>> naive recipes; that's why I posted to a theory group.

> Like Bob, I am not aware of any paperwork on the subject.

Thanks Erwin.

> When I built my generic testDB construction tool (for the IDMS system,
> not an SQL one), I just had to tackle the problems one by one as they
> came about.
>
> So all in all, all I'll have to offer are the ideas and concepts
> underpinning what I built at the time. A lot of those do carry over
> to SQL systems, but they still remain little more than "recipes" for
> an actual solution.

There are many obvious approaches that I'm sure we've all used over the years. If there are no better approaches written about, then at least I've made a reasonably good stab at proving that's the best I can do.

-- 
Roy