10 tips for Test Data Management success

What are the challenges to implementing a successful test data management strategy? In our recent webinar ‘Harnessing the Power of Test Data Management: Strategies for Success’, Redgate’s Steve Jones was joined by Hamish Watson (DevOps Consultant) and Daniel Watkins (Director/Principal Consultant) to talk all things TDM and how to implement it efficiently and effectively. Here are 10 key tips and takeaways from their conversation in a short blog post.

Redgate recommended in Bloor Test Data Management market update

Last year, Redgate announced the launch of their latest in test data management (TDM) technology – Redgate Test Data Manager. This year, they’re proud to have been recommended in Bloor’s 2024 Test Data Management Market Update! This paper highlights the increasing adoption of TDM technology among enterprise organizations and offers insight into the trends and approaches to look out for when looking for a TDM solution.

Concepts and Issues in Test Data Generation

Data generation is the science and art of providing data for database development work that is as realistic and controllable as possible. The skills of generating realistic data are an essential part of being a database developer. It is important: you need plenty of data of exactly the right type, size and verisimilitude

What is subsetting, what are the advantages, and how does it make test data management easier?

As data grows and databases become larger and more complicated, data
subsetting provides a method of working with a smaller, lighter copy of a
database to make development and testing faster and easier.

In this article, James Hemson poses the questions; what exactly is data subsetting, how and why are developers using it – or not using it, and
what’s prompting conversations about it?

Python Script to generate test data

Very often there is a need to create test data manually. This script will provide a mix of names that will make more sense rather than randomly generating meaningless names.

Finding Legal Data

Using data scraped from the web might be convenient, but is it legal. Perhaps more importantly, is it moral? Steve has a few thoughts.

Representative Data Challenges

We need data that represents the problem we want to solve, or we might not achieve our aims.

Creating Test Data

This editorial was originally published on Jan 9, 2020. It is being re-run as Steve is out of town. Test data is hard to come by, and I agree with Brent Ozar: " I get so frustrated when I hear trainers/presenters/bloggers/idealists talk about how developers should be using purpose-built-from-scratch data sets with no real customer […]

Test data provisioning for development – free whitepaper

Compare the most common approaches to provisioning test data to database development teams and see how they stack up.
Learn why traditional approaches like restore from backup are no longer suitable, and how successful organizations are implementing a combined data masking and data virtualization approach.

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