general mock (fake) database creation approach ?

Hello, friends and gurus. May I have some advice on general approach you
guys take to generate a mock database with fake data in it?
Thanks
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SincerelyIf you have real data available, you can scramble the data (especially
names) to make demo data. Otherwise, it's just a lot of work. There are
lots of options. Randomize. Get some other data source and pretend it's
what you want. Refactor census data. Get imaginative.
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"Frank RS" <FrankRS@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, friends and gurus. May I have some advice on general approach you
> guys take to generate a mock database with fake data in it?
> Thanks
> --
> Sincerely|||Frank,
I don't know if this will help or not, but what we have found that works
well is use stored procedures that return "fake" data; at least enough to
return data that will suffice for formatting, grouping, etc.
"Frank RS" <FrankRS@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C2C3586F-FC2F-4476-B1F3-F74265142799@.microsoft.com...
> Hello, friends and gurus. May I have some advice on general approach you
> guys take to generate a mock database with fake data in it?
> Thanks
> --
> Sincerely