I have a task to create a decision tree for defining a person's creditworthiness based on their information. I need a database containing about 1000 of persons with their personal information, of course they can be fake. Where can I get this database? Thanks in advance
Redgate's SQL Data Generator 1.2
This article might be of interest if you do not want to buy a tool:
Generate test data using SQL
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How Do I: Generate Test Data using Visual Studio Team System Database Edition?
VS2010 : Generating Test Data for Databases by Using Data Generators
I know it might be late, but here's the German credit scoring dataset. It contains 1000 observations, and the data is real.
http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/service/datenarchiv/kredit/kredit_e.html
Try Fake name generator
You can order bulk data for free from http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/order.php
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I am doing a SQL Server DB migration task. After the migration, I need compare the old and the new DB. I need generate a summary report (by another table or excel both are OK) to the requirement team to evaluate if the difference needs fix.
There are plenty of free and paid tools available for this job. If you are ready for a paid tool, red-gate SQL Compare is a very good tool. You may search web for reviews about free tools available.
The company I work for has a very old system that uses Paradox.
I need to rewrite this system and I need to migrate the data from Paradox to SQL Server 2008.
How do I do this?
I found that it was possible to log into the Paradox database, copy and paste the data into Excel and then import the data into SQL Server in the normal way.
I had to do something exactly the same for a company I am working for
There are a few options
Export data in csv files through paradox
Or if your really lazy like me get the free trial for ESF database migration tool
you can select the entire Schema or database you want to convert
and convert everything all at once.
I was a little skeptical at first so I played with the free trial before buying it, but I must say it was worth buying.
Hope this helps it had me annoyed for a few months.
Hi I need some sample SQL Server Employee database with data such as id, surname, name, age, adress etc. It must be quite big, I search with google, but I don't find any good sample.
Can any body help ?
The only tool I can think of is Red Gate Data Generator.
Otherwise, you'd be looking at someone's actual data or expecting someone to provide such a tool free of charge.
You may find it a challenge to find such a database, privacy concerns prevent most publication of personal data such as you require. You may find one using pseudo-data, that is data that looks like what you want but is not about 'real' people. But you will probably find it easier to generate your own such pseudo-data. If you take this approach you can be sure that the data you generate meets your requirements too.
if you have access to Microsoft Visual studio for Database professionals it has a data generator built in which you can use
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Also the AdventureWorks db also has a Employee table i think.
This might not be Employee based, but is definitely worth having a look
AdventureWorks
The Northwind database contains some sample employee data in a .mdf file which can be attached to SQL Server.
The old Northwind database has Employee table but that's quite small.
Our clients use SQLServer/Oracle databases. Over the years, we've sent them many update scripts which they had to run manually. Most of the time, everything went smooth, but every now and then a script did not run completely to the end or had some errors in it (which weren't detected at the time of the upgrade). Also, sometimes even "smart users" added indexes/tables into those databases themselves, for whatever reason. Later on, those irregularities lead to problems.
Now I have been tasked to figure out a way to verify/validate our clients databases against our own database schema (tables, datatypes, indexes, views, ...). The output should be some kind of difference file indicating what is missing/what should not be in the database. I could do this in code (C++) from inside our application or I can create an external tool for just this one purpose.
Now before I start coding, I wanted to ask if there is already a tool out there that would produce the necessary results, or that at least could help me produce a decent xml file from our master-databases (Oracle and SQLServer)? Or is there a library which could help me write my own tool?
I've used this technique before and it doesn't require buying any tools.
Enterprise Manager has a "Create Script" feature. Perform this on your reference database and the comparison database. Select the appropriate options to generate scripts for the objects you care about. Next, just compare the two generated files with your favorite diff tool.
You can do a similar procedure with Oracle tools that let you export the DDL scripts.
There are three options using Red Gate's tools:
Have your client run the comparison.
You would need to convince your
clients to purchase a license of SQL
Compare and send them a schema
snapshot of your database.
Write an application of your own using Red
Gate's SQL Comparison SDK ($595 for
10 distributions) which can be run
at the client site.
Ask your client to send you a schema snapshot and
run the comparison yourself using your own
copy of SQL Compare. Red Gate
supplies a free schema snapshot tool
called SQL Snapper that will create
snapshots that can then be emailed to you
by your client. As this doesn't include any data, it may be something your client is willing to consider.
The SQL Snapper tool and SQL Comparison SDK sample code can be downloaded from our labs.red-gate.com website.
Oracle compatibility is now available in the form of an Early Access Build. If you're interested or would like to try out the tool visit the product page. You can use this for free until the full release of the tool.
David Atkinson, Product Manager, Red Gate Software.
We use Redgate SQL Compare for this and it's served us well over the years.
We also use Redgate SQL Data Compare for comparing the content of lookup tables.
The folks at redgate have a great tool called SQL Compare.
Can you create a schema dump like MySQL's SHOW CREATE TABLES?
If you're on Windoze, I have used Advanced Query Tool for years, and can attest that, for the money, it does more than anything else. In particular, it will generate a diff report between databases. It is ODBC/VB6, and can run against dozens of databases. Check it out. (No, I am not of QueryTool nor do I own any part of it, just a happy client.)
Is there a simpler interface for end users to run "queries" on pre-existing SqlServer Analysis Service cubes? I'm looking for a way to deploy the cubes and allow the users to work with the data through a simpler interface than BIDS. Is this even possible?
I would recommend Excel too. It is an environment that your users are familiar with anyway, and they will be able to perform additional analysis (totals etc) without learning any new interfaces.
However, I would advise against pivot tables as a method of getting the data into Excel. I once worked on a project using pivot tables, and it was a filthy nightmare. The more recent versions of Office have a slightly different tool called "Microsoft Office Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services" which can get OLAP data into Excel. I downloaded XLAddinSetup.msi for Excel 2002/3 or you can use this method for Excel 2007.
You can use Excel with pivot tables for that, no need to write any queries at all, they can drill down to all the data they need
There's a couple of End User Reporting Tools around.
Our tool - RSinteract, is quite cheap and effective. It uses an AJAXy web interface so no need to install on the client and has drag and drop functionality similar to the other tools. It also has a 30 day evaluation.
There are many, many tools. An incomplete overview can be found here: http://www.ssas-info.com/analysis-services-client-tools-frontend
Dundas has a set of tools that let you drag and drop dimensions/hierarchies/measures to create visualizations like charts and/or grids. The product name is Dundas Chart for ASP.NET Enterprise Edition, and it has a free demo.
ProClarity also had a suite of tools. Not sure how you get those tools any longer, but I think they are part of MSDN now.
As stated by Jay, there are several client tools you can use to query the cubes that give the end user the ability to drag and drop dimensions for ad-hoc querying.
ProClarity has been acquired by Microsoft, and most of the functionality is being incorporated into PerformancePoint
Panorama Software (original developers of Analysis Services) also provide access with their NovaView products
Another option is Report Builder, that comes for free with SQL Server.
Though the SQL Server 2005 version is a bit cranky, the new release with SQL Server 2008 seems to work much better.
Although it isn't as flexible as excel for ad-hoc queries,it comes very handy for some scenarios.