+100000000000000000~

i ran headlong into this years ago when i was a dBase coder... i had to work with copies of live data to have any type of meaningful testing apparatus... to use some sort of data generator was as useless as "tits on a boar" unless the testing generator also had some sort of template type coding which ensured that the linking keys between the databases (what are now called tables) had the same values... there was nothing of this type back then and one had to create their own specialized test data generator tools for each specific application to get anywhere... those around me didn't understand my arguments until i tasked them to show me reliable results with their stuff compared to actual data from a live system... "Sokath, his eyes opened!" to say the least ;)