New Feature: Import Your Database Schema - GenRocket

New Feature: Import Your Database Schema - GenRocket

New Feature: Import Your Database Schema

by GREGG BOLINGER on FEBRUARY 22, 2014

We just released GenRocket version 2.1.0 last week.  One of the new features of this release comes from a common question that seems to come up quite often when we’re talking to folks about GenRocket:  “Can I import my existing database into GenRocket?”.  We held off implementing this feature for a while for a few reasons.

• GenRocket isn’t a database copy tool.  We’ve found that when generating test data, rarely do you need every column in your database mapped directly into GenRocket.
• GenRocket defines relationships between Domains at the Scenario level.  Reading in a database full of foreign keys wasn’t going to gain much for our users.
• GenRocket isn’t just for databases.  We have Receivers that write to XML, JSON, CSV, and even just to memory.  Data generation needs extend well beyond columns in a database.