At the PASS Data Community Summit in 2024, Redgate launched Test Data Manager (TDM), which was a new product for us. You can watch the video linked above to see a bit more about it.
TDM was based on some existing technology, and incorporated a product that we were already selling, but it was an evolution based on our knowledge and experience that helps organizations build better software. We’ve had these products for a number of years:
- data masking – Data Masker for SQL Server and Oracle
- database virtualization/cloning – SQL Clone / Redgate Clone
- data generation – SQL Data Generator for SQL Server
- classification – SQL Data Catalog for SQL Server
However, we didn’t want to just rebrand these, but rather attack the problem space in a new way. We especially wanted to be sure that our products would work across different database platforms.
The result is Test Data Manager, which includes these capabilities:
- classification
- subsetting
- masking
- data generation
- database virtualization/cloning
Of these areas, only the last one (virtualization/cloning) uses an existing product, Redgate Clone. The rest of these are CLI driven brand new products designed to be put together to meet your needs. I’m particularly excited by subsetting (I wrote about this recently), as I think this is a boon to agility.
If you want to shift-left, empower your developers, and build better quality database software faster, check out Test Data Manager and get a demo scheduled.