About
This how-to will show you how to fill a table with auto-generated data and the Tabli fill action.
Steps
Prerequisites
You should have Tabulify installed on your computer. Learning Tabulify - Step 1 - Installation
Create the target table
For the purpose of this how-to, we will work with the date_dim TPC-DS table.
tabli data create date_dim@tpcds @sqlite
The list of data resources created
uri
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date_dim@sqlite
Fill the date_dim table with 10 rows
With the tabli data fill operation, insert 10 rows automatically generated into the table date_dim
tabli data fill --max-record-count 10 date_dim@sqlite
Source Target Latency (ms) Row Count Error Message
--------------- --------------- ------------ --------- ----- -------
date_dim@memgen date_dim@sqlite 30 10
Check the result
With the data print command, we can see the content of the date_dim table in the sqlite connection
tabli data print date_dim@sqlite
d_date_sk d_date_id d_date d_month_seq d_week_seq d_quarter_seq d_year d_dow d_moy d_dom d_qoy d_fy_year d_fy_quarter_seq d_fy_week_seq d_day_name d_quarter_name d_holiday d_weekend d_following_holiday d_first_dom d_last_dom d_same_day_ly d_same_day_lq d_current_day d_current_week d_current_month d_current_quarter d_current_year
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1 a 2020-12-07 1 1 6 4 7 8 9 8 5 1 9 s p y f x 7 0 5 10 r c o c h
2 b 2020-12-04 1 6 4 8 7 5 10 4 7 0 4 l u b i l 10 1 9 0 g w r s j
3 c 2020-12-12 0 1 6 8 2 2 7 8 5 3 10 i b i i z 2 6 3 5 t w a b t
4 d 2020-12-02 2 4 7 4 10 9 10 6 7 0 3 k t f l n 1 6 4 4 i l g u n
5 e 2020-12-12 9 2 4 9 7 2 4 8 3 7 9 j b g n o 10 9 0 10 w i w o l
6 f 2020-12-03 2 8 10 9 0 5 0 5 3 0 10 r y e g u 7 5 6 10 a o o d f
7 g 2020-12-06 6 10 7 3 10 9 6 8 3 2 4 o h d l w 10 3 1 2 k t o k o
8 h 2020-12-05 1 3 4 1 5 6 0 1 7 9 2 q m w w p 6 2 0 9 y h y a l
9 i 2020-12-05 0 4 5 10 6 1 5 7 4 2 10 k f s o c 4 5 9 2 o q f y e
10 j 2020-12-08 7 5 6 6 9 6 6 0 3 8 4 m r s a u 9 9 10 9 l j l a v
Fill the date_dim table with 10.000 rows
tabli data fill --max-record-count 10000 date_dim@sqlite
Source Target Latency (ms) Row Count Error Message
--------------- --------------- ------------ --------- ----- -------
date_dim@memgen date_dim@sqlite 1180 10000
Check the result
And we got 10.000 rows
tabli data list -a count date_dim@sqlite
count
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10000
Next
The generated data follows a default definition but you can define the generated data that you want with the help of a data definition file.