We have a big need to generate test data to verify all kinds of functionality in our system. Personally I like to use Oracle PL/SQL to do the job. This is very practical. The data needs to be in our Oracle 11g database. What better way than to use some code compiled into the database?Now PL/SQL does have some more advanced programming constructs such as collections. However you can't beat high level languages such as C++ or Java to have advanced features. I have been experimenting with writing some utility apps in Java.
The next step will be to start writing some Java apps to generate test data. I know how to use JDBC to do simple database queries and DML. Let's see where this takes me.
