A Basic Technique for Masking Address Data using Data Masker

Grant Fritchey provides a simple way to create fake address information that still looks real. The compromise is that it uses random data distributions and doesn't maintain any correlation between postal codes, states and cities, so won’t accurately reflect the real address data. Read more

How to reset your development database in seconds using SQL Clone

Owen Hall describes the new "clone reset" feature, how it works and the database development and testing processes it enables, or makes simpler and quicker. Read more

Spoofing Realistic Credit Card Data for your Test Systems using Data Masker

Grant Fritchey shows how to use Data Masker to create fake credit card data that not only looks like the real thing, but also has the right distribution, so will act like it too, when we query it. Read more

Creating Multiple Masked Databases with SQL Provision

Chris Unwin explains how SQL Provision can create copies of multiple databases, each masked consistently, and deliver them as a group. This is useful when, for example, you are working with a Data Warehouse that contains several cross-database relationships. Read more

Getting Started with Database Development Using SQL Provision

Steve Jones shares how he migrates his existing development databases to clones, using SQL Provision and a simple PowerShell function. Read more

Building Better Test Data with SQL Provision

Steve Jones show how a team might use SQL Provision to build consistent, compliant, useful databases, on demand, for development and test environments. Read more

Automatic Provisioning of Developer Databases with SQL Provision

Steve Jones shows a simple way to provision full size databases for developers, using production like data that has been masked automatically as part of the provisioning process. Read more

Approaches to masking email addresses

Chris Unwin explains the basic approaches to anonymizing email addresses, and shows how Data Masker can generate realistic email addresses, based on faked names, and even retain the correct distribution of email providers. Read more

Masking Dates in a Non-Production Database

Gerry Leith explores what’s required for the effective masking of dates and times in your data. Read more

SQL Provision adds fully integrated data masking

Karis Brummit announces SQL Provision, which combines SQL Clone's fast, lightweight database copying and centralized management of provisioning, with Data Maskers's ability to obfuscate sensitive or personal data, prior to distribution. Read more

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