Welcome to the SQL Data Expert Website!
Submitted by Patrick Schoenbach on Wed, 04/27/2005 - 12:56am.This site contains information about SQL Data Expert, a test data generator for SQL databases which is available at no cost, and which is released under the GNU Public License.
When developing database applications, one often needs suitable data for testing the application. But what to do, if no legacy data exists or if it is in the wrong data format and therefore unsuitable as test data? This is where SQL Data Expert comes into play. It can generate any amount of data for you, but not just arbitrary data. You can exactly specify the constraints for the generated data via a graphical user interface. For a detailed list of features of SQL Data Expert, look at the feature list. You can download SQL Data Expert at our downloads page.
Development has started!
Submitted by Patrick Schoenbach on Wed, 05/04/2005 - 3:40am.Finally, I managed to start with the development of SQL Data Expert. As a first step, to get into the project slowly, I created an object factory mechanism that should be flexible enough to be reused throughout the whole project. Next, I will build an interface for basic DBMS connectivity and implement it for PostgreSQL. Nothing fancy and no configurability via XML yet, but it should be ok for the first alpha release or two. Coming from the programming language Eiffel, I somewhat miss its powerful multiple inheritance support.
