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Generate sample data for testing

Generate sample data for testing - DBeaver Tutorial

From the course: DBeaver Essential Training

Generate sample data for testing

- [Instructor] The development and testing of a new database system will, sometimes, require that you have data tables to experiment with. With Dbeaver's Mock Data Generator, you can create a table and fill it with realistic looking, but fake data, so that you're not experimenting with real life values. To see how this works, I'm going to open up a new console window and paste in the contents of the mock data text file from the exercise files. This will create a table called People, and fill it with a couple of columns. Make sure that you're targeting the DBeaver sample database and execute the query. When it's done we can close the console, right-click on the Tables folder, in the sample database, and choose Refresh, then we should be able to find the People table and see that it has all of the columns inside. So here's the empty People table, ready to be filled with fake people. Right-click on it, point to Tools and…

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