Re: Market Survey for a Database Data Generation Utility

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------33A13FB7B51FF2B8408FD20F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Have you heard about LogicWorks TESTBytes? There's a trial version at http://logicworks.com check it out, it could be helpful for your project! Chris R. Timmons wrote: } Market Survey for a Database Data Generation Utility } } Dear Database Professional: } } Can we get your opinion on a new database product? } } Our company is considering marketing a database utility which fills } tables with random, but "realistic" looking, data. } } The program's goal is to allow a database developer to create a database } structure consisting of tables, fields, and relational links between } tables. The program would then fill the tables with random data } according to the rules set forth for each field. For instance, fields } could be filled with such things as person last names, organization } names, states, phone numbers, values from a user-defined list, or a } user-defined data type. The relational links between tables could be } one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one (for lookup tables) or } many-to-many. The number of records for most of the tables could be } specified by the user, up to hundreds of thousands if that is what's } needed. } } The user interface would probably present the database structure in a } Win95 Explorer-like view. We plan on offering native database access to } dBASE, FoxPro, Paradox and Access tables, with support for ODBC data } sources (e.g. Oracle, Sybase, etc.) } } The price for this product has not been set, but we're aiming for the } "less than $400" range. } } What do you think? Is this product something that you, or a database } professional in general, would find useful? } } We appreciate any comments you can give us. Please respond via e-mail } to: } } survey@lgrs.com } } Thank you. } } Chris R. Timmons } President, LGRS, Inc. --------------33A13FB7B51FF2B8408FD20F Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Melvin Perez Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Melvin Perez n: Perez;Melvin org: CAM Informatica. S. A. email;internet: cam@codetel.net.do title: Technical Vicepresident tel;work: (809) 686-5574 tel;fax: (809) 686-5467 tel;home: (809) 227-2893 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------33A13FB7B51FF2B8408FD20F--