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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: CS instead of math? |
| Date | 2016-06-02 16:43 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <drb60tFaofbU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2016-06-02, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
> Andy Burns wrote:
>> Huge wrote:
>>
>>> I spent a LOT of time before retiring (last year)
>>> working on restricting the use of live data in testing
>>
>> One system I look after (the o/s and networking parts rather than the
>> software) takes a nightly copy of the live database into the test
>> database, in the process it mangles all the human readable names,
>> addresses, and identifiers. This gives the same size of data with the
>> same relations between rows in the tables to work on.
>>
>> I think it uses a temporary hash to form the mangled version then throws
>> it away before committing to the test database, I suppose the mangling
>> could be subverted by the developer but he (one left from the original
>> team of three) could subvert the system anyway.
>>
>> It allows testing or demonstrating of problems to the likes of me
>> without seeing patient data, and when I need to test printing it ends up
>> looking like it's in Klingon, hopefully no pharmacy would ever issue
>> such a methadone prescription!
>>
> How do you test anything which needed to be sorted if all the fields
> have junk in them?
That's one of the reasons that data anonymisation is very hard ...
:o)
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Re: CS instead of math? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-06-02 08:17 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? Andy Burns <feb2017-usenet@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2016-06-02 09:49 +0100
Re: CS instead of math? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-02 12:09 +0100
Re: CS instead of math? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-06-03 13:16 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-06-02 12:09 +0000
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Re: CS instead of math? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-01 07:29 +0100
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Re: CS instead of math? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-01 12:41 +0100
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 17:04 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-02 07:59 +0100
Re: CS instead of math? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-06-02 08:18 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 19:53 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-01 12:15 +0100
Re: CS instead of math? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-06-01 17:42 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-06-01 13:51 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-05-22 11:27 +0100
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-22 07:21 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-22 13:15 +0000
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Re: CS instead of math? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-05-25 07:18 +0000
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Re: CS instead of math? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-05-26 17:56 +0000
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Re: CS instead of math? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-05-25 07:43 -0500
Re: CS instead of math? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-05-26 17:55 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-26 07:14 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-05-27 17:40 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-27 18:46 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-05-31 17:28 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-31 16:09 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-31 21:07 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-01 08:58 +0100
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 05:48 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-06-01 12:06 +0200
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Re: CS instead of math? sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2016-06-03 16:05 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 20:49 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2016-06-04 22:29 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-01 12:27 +0100
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 17:07 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-02 08:12 +0100
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 19:56 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-03 09:17 +0100
Re: CS instead of math? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-06-01 13:20 -0700
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 17:10 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-06-02 17:58 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-06-02 13:57 -0500
Re: CS instead of math? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-06-02 17:43 -0300
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 20:08 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-06-02 17:58 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 20:05 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-06-03 10:38 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-06-03 11:41 +0100
Re: CS instead of math? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-06-03 13:16 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-06-09 05:49 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 19:58 -0400
Re: CS instead of math? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-06-17 03:35 +0000
Re: CS instead of math? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-06-02 19:47 -0700
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