How to Generate Dummy Data – REALLY FAST

generatedata How to Generate Dummy Data REALLY FAST

Need to populate a database with some dummy figures? Here’s perhaps the fastest way you’ll be able to do this.

GenerateData.com is a free service which quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats (eg. Excel, CSV, SQL, HTML). What I like most about GenerateData.com it is you can choose the type of data to generate, for example – phone numbers, email, names etc. Everything just gets neatly generated based on whatever you select and it really saves time trying to come up with quality dummy data.

Also, if you want this service to run on own server (in case you need to run some heavy duty data generation), the script is open and available for download on the site – for FREE.

Thanks Skeevs for sharing this :)

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svetlin 5 pts

Anyone know of a tool that can generate dummy data based on a data model like hibernate? I need dummy data for various scenarios, not just for a fixed DB schema. Ideally I would pass a hibernate configuration or a set of annotated beans and the tool will create the insert statements for me.

Anything out there, or just in my dreams? (I started working on one, but it got hairy pretty quickly trying to figure out how to populate id fields, foreign key fields in the correct order, mapping tables for many-to-many, etc.)

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