Tag Archives: database subsetting

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Cut costs not projects

Posted on04. Oct, 2010 by Huw Price.

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With more companies postponing or even cutting IT projects, the need to create efficiencies when it comes to developing systems is greater than ever. Yet at the same time, those efficiencies are being sought with production databases and applications that are ballooning both in terms of size and complexity. Transaction rates are happening at unprecedented [...]

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On the other hand…

Posted on09. Jun, 2010 by Huw Price.

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So start with a full copy of your production database for testing and development – no matter the size – use data masking techniques for sensitive data, consider the advantages of subsetting and start from there, right? Well, there is another way. With the project objectives clear it is possible to generate data to fit [...]

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Why are you still using copies of production databases for testing?!

Posted on01. Jun, 2010 by Huw Price.

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So what’s it all about? As you sit looking at a new set of testing and development requirements, it can be easy to lose track of the basics. It should be about application usability; improving customer experience and business efficiencies. All simple stuff but an understanding of the role of each business function and a [...]

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