Test Data
Welcome to IRI’s primer on test data management. This is the opening article, which is followed by a 4-step series.
IntroductionAs anyone familiar with the challenges of healthcare.gov Read More
Test Data
Database and solution architects depend on realistic test data to:
help create new databases, prototype ETL jobs or applications benchmark performance in new or existing platforms stress-test systems protect confidential information in existing systems if database work is outsourced or used for demonstrations. Read More
IRI Workbench
A test data generator is an important part of the setup process for DevOps and data architects prototyping database and data warehouse operations, testing applications, benchmarking different platforms, and outsourcing work formats. Read More
Big Data
One of the best ways to speed up big data processing operations is to not process so much data in the first place; i.e. to eliminate unnecessary data ahead of time. Read More
IRI Business
IRI Workbench is a powerful, and free integrated development environment (IDE) built on Eclipse designed for the user-friendly creation, management, and deployment of jobs in most IRI software products. Read More
Test Data
Database Test Data Usage – This blog caught my eye because of its title, Do the right thing when testing with production data. It struck me as oxymoronic, since we know production data should not be used for testing at all …
Of course we know how tempting it is to use production data for testing applications, simulating databases, prototyping ETL operations, and just about anything else that needs to work with the real thing. Read More
Data Migration
Data migration is done using NextForm; IRI’s data migration utility for converting large files into different formats and/or translating field-level data into other types. The current version converts between uniform XML and text files, LDIF and CSV, Vision and ISAM, MF COBOL variable-length files and Excel, etc. Read More
Data Migration
ODBC, Open Database Connectivity, is an industry-standard application programming interface (API) for access to both relational and non-relational database management systems (DBMS). ODBC was first developed by the SQL Access Group (SAG) in 1992 in response to the need to access data stored in a variety of proprietary personal computer, minicomputer, and mainframe databases without having to know their proprietary interfaces.
Data Masking/Protection
Data privacy breaches are becoming more and more prevalent and common in the United States today. Â Did you know that on average, as many as 72,000 documented breaches of personally identifiable information (i.e. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
This article deals with pseudonymization as one method of de-identifying or anonymizing sensitive data. IRI publishes more in-depth information on the topic in its learning center article on pseudonymization here. Read More
