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Data Generation Plans

You can use Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals to generate meaningful data for testing. You can generate random data, generate data from existing data sources, and control many aspects of data generation. For more information, see Overview of Generating Data.

To generate data, you must create and run a data generation plan that contains the information about which tables and columns you want to fill. Your plan also contains details about the amount and kind of data that you want to put in each column. You can save your plan as a file in the database project so that you can edit and reuse the plan to generate data.

The topics in this section explain the steps to create and run a data generation plan.

In This Section

  • How to: Specify Tables for Data Generation
    Discusses the restrictions and requirements for what tables you can and cannot include in a data generation plan. Also lists the steps to specify tables in a data generation plan.

Reference

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.DataGenerator

  • Using Standard Generators
    Contains links to topics that describe how to use the standard data generators, such as the integer, string, and regular expression generators.
  • Creating Custom Generators
    Contains links to topics that describe how to use extensibility to create, register, and deploy custom data generators.