Re: R: Large sample data sets for testing

[mos]

At 09:55 AM 5/22/2004, you wrote:
>Have you tried dbmonster?
>http://dbmonster.kernelpanic.pl/index.html
>
>It generates random data for you.
>
> > -----Messaggio originale-----
> > Da: Greg Willits [mailto:greg@stripped]
> > Inviato: venerdi 21 maggio 2004 21.17
> > Cc: MySql
> > Oggetto: Large sample data sets for testing
> >
> >
> > Anyone know of some large sample data sets available for free or < $100?
> >
> > "Large" = maybe 1KB per row or so, 1,000,000 - 5,000,000 records or so,
> > something on the order of a couple hundred megabytes.
> >
> > "Sample Data" = I don't really care what it is (text based though, no
> > need for BLOB), just something to use for testing. Maybe an old news
> > feed archive or something?
> >
> > I'm sure I could cope with just about any common exchange format.
> > Always wanted to test the performance and scaling of some setups I have
> > and things I've written, but I've never located a big (to me) data set
> > to play with.
> >
> > -- greg willits
> >
> >


Greg,
         EMS has a MySQL data generator for $39 that runs on Windows. See 
http://www.ems-hitech.com/mysqlutils.

Mike