Sooner or later, coders will feel the need to have access to "open data" in one of their projects, from knowing a city's zip to a more obscure information such as the axial tilt of Pluto. I know data.un.org which offers access to the UN's extensive array of databases that deal with human development and other socio-economic issues. The ...
How can I find or generate thousands of company names for testing and demo purposes? (Address, phone number, and related information would be nice too.) I've got a system I'm building which includes business contact information. Pretty common no doubt. My test/demo database currently has randomly generated individual's names loaded...
I need to build a quick feasibility test / proof-of-concept of a remote database for a client, that will be populated with mostly-typical Company and People data (names, addresses, etc); 150K records or so. The sample databases mentioned here were helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/57068/good-databases-with-sample-data ...bu...
Sometimes you need data for tests, like Adobe Thermo has prewritten "sets" of data, like 1-word strings, 3-word strings, etc for use in populating data controls. I need: Continuous text, no newlines CSV Numbers, Integers CSV Numbers, Decimals URL encoded strings Any ideas on how to get any of those? ...
I’m thinking through some database design concepts and believe that creating sample data simulating real-world volume of my application will help solidify some design decisions. Does any anyone know of a tool to create sample data? I’m looking for something that’s database and platform neutral if possible (from MySQL to DB/2 and Wind...
I would like to play with a larger database to test my knowledge on SQL. Is there a huge .sql out there that I can use to play with SQL queries? ...
How would I get a subset (say 100MB) of Wikipedia's pages? I've found you can get the whole dataset as XML but its more like 1 or 2 gigs; I don't need that much. I want to experiment with implementing a map-reduce algorithm. Having said that, if I could just find 100 megs worth of textual sample data from anywhere, that would also be ...
Where can I find sample data of medical information? Data on medicines, diseases, etc. and preferably in a format easy to import into an SQL database. ...
What is largest free datababase for SQL Server engine available for testing purposes? ...
Well, what alternative sample databases exist that have: an un-restrictive license loads of sample data lots of data types a simple mechanism for adding the database to a db server are not Northwind I'm not too fussed what server type (MSSQL, SQLite, MySQL, etc.) the db is designed for. ...
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 ? ...
So, I have this java based data trasformation / masking tool, which I wanted to test out on Oracle 10g. The good part with Oracle 10g is that you get a load of sample schemas with half a million records in some. The schemas are : SH, OE, HR, IX and etc. So, I installed 10g, found out that the installation scripts are under ORACLE_HOME/de...
I need a database for testing a data masking solution. Any database would do (Oracle/MSSQL flavor). I just need the schema / db definition. I have tools to generate data records. The magnitude of database I am looking should have 30 odd tables with 30 odd columns in each table - a HUGE database. Do freely available complex database /sc...
I would like to create sample data which are created only in design mode (When the WPF Window is shown in the Visual Studio WPF Designer or in Expression Blend). I tried this: public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); if (DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode(this)) { DataContext = new Person() { Name = "Harry" };...
I am using Expression Blend 4 and Visual Studio 2010 to create a Sketchflow prototype. I have a Sample Data collection and a ListBox that is bound to it. This displays as I would expect both at design time and at run time. However, the ListBoxItem template it just complex enough that I wanted to pull it out into its own XAML file. Ev...
Where can I find a list of common medical drugs? Researching and typing 150+ drug names would be quite inefficient. In general, are there any sites which have a list of items for developers to use in applications? For example, you can download dictionaries in specific formats (e.g. XML) for use in word games. ...
Does anybody know whether one is allowed to use these trademarks in our own examples or documentations? The wikipedia page does not mention this. Maybe someone already did this and already researched it. At the moment I need nice example html-newsletters I can show in the manual for my software, but marketing etc. also need nice sample ...
I'd like to get hold of a wide range of videos to use as test data. I'd ideally need Flash, Quicktime and Windows Media containers with video content at various bitrates and resolutions. Before I set out gathering or creating such a collection myself, does anyone know if a similar repository of sample video data already exists? Perhaps ...
I need about 10 sample contacts to prepare screen shots. Is it okay to use dead writers names with 555 phone numbers? Like "Mark Twain +1 (555) 4567777". I'm from Russia and I think it's perfectly okay, but I have to show it to Americans. I don't want to get sued or something. I don't even want them to raise eyebrows you know like "those...
I've created some sample data as a StaticResource in a Sketchflow prototype (this is a Silverlight project). I want to filter or group-by the sample data before binding it to a gridview for display. How do I get at the sample data in my C# codebehind files in order to filter or group-by it before display? ...