At times you’ll find yourself responsible for generating test data for newly created tables for testing or sampling purpose. There are tools that will generate random data for you but they’re not free. At-times you’ll write scripts to generate data but those will be table specific. I hate generating dummy data, yes I do and I assume you do too! I think that’s the major reason I wrote these MySQL functions and procedures for Generating dummy test data. GitHub: mysql random data generator. People can manage these things with a simple perl / shell script with loops but again that...
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