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by jve 1513 days ago
Is this a negative or positive comment?

> Fake data is a safer approach, and tools exist to help in its creation.

Because the tool presented is exactly what this quote says.

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No, the tool presented is to copy real production data down to a test instance with support for anonymization, subsetting, etc. That's a very different approach than tools for creating fake data.