Re: Market Survey for a Database Data Generation Utility

There are already quite a few loaders of test data eg. PumpItUp from TCF or LoadRunner from Mercury. Jon 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.