SQL Server Data Generator

dbForge Studio for SQL Server features a powerful visual tool allowing you to noticeably save time and effort spent on test data generation. Data Generator will populate your SQL Server tables with thousands of rows of realistic test data in a snap.

When it comes to creating, modifying, or testing database-driven components or applications, it is crucial to analyze their efficiency using a variety of input data and operating conditions. Such analysis helps eliminate development gaps and ensure the reliability and quality of a given application. Thus sooner or later all DBAs, developers, and testers face the necessity of generating SQL test data.

Create massive volumes of meaningful, realistic test data in seconds
Create, customize, and share generators with your team
Schedule and automate data population tasks with the command-line interface
Enjoy sensible customization options
Write your own generators in Python

Full support of all column data types

The tool supports a massive range of column data types, including:

GEORGAPHY
GEOMETRY
HIERARCHYID
DATATIME2
DATATIMEOFFSET

Data Generator or SQL Server - Support for all column data types

Multiple generators with data customization

Individual generators for each supported data type, that allow you to customize:

Number of NULL rows
Number of empty rows
Data uniqueness
Value ranges
Value distribution mode

SQL Data Generator - generators with data customization

SQL data integrity support

The tool supports foreign keys for the generation of consistent data across multiple tables. It also allows disabling triggers and constraints to avoid interference with database logic.

Multiple ways to populate data

After you've set up the data population project, dbForge Studio for SQL Server generates a data population script that can immediately be executed against a SQL Server database, saved for future use, or opened for editing in the internal editor.

SQL random custom data generator - ways to populate SQL data

Basic generators

Populate tables with various types of values. The tool includes the following generators:

Constant
Files Folder
Foreign Key
Lorem Ipsum
Regular Expression
Shuffled Text

SQL Query
Table or View
Text File
Twaddle
Weighted Lists
Python

SQL test data generator - Basic generators

Meaningful generators

200+ generators allow populating tables with realistic test data. In particular, the tool can fill your tables with:

IDs
Post codes
Phone numbers
Countries
Credit card numbers
E-mails
Social Security Numbers
First & Last Names
Product Categories

and much more!

Test Data Generation Tool - Meaningful generators

User-defined generators

Create, save, and use your own generators that would better meet your needs, instead of wasting time on the customization of the existing generators over and over again.

Command-line interface

The Data Generator utility that comes with dbForge Studio for SQL Server supports the command-line interface, thus allowing you to significantly save time by automating and scheduling repetitive routine data generation tasks.

Conclusion

dbForge Studio for SQL Server incorporates a bunch of advanced features for populating SQL Server databases with real-world test data. With the tool, you can generate data with inter-column dependency support, as well as RegExp and Python support, create user-defined data generators, generate JSON data on the basis of templates, and much, much more. Download a trial version of the Studio and get this useful functionality all in one.