Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Corporation

Anitha Athipathy

Rajesh Gandhi

Arun Kumar Palani

Pushpalatha Tantrady

Hanumantha Reddy Narayana

Anuragh Ravindran

Venkata R Tiruveedi

Venkata Ramana Rao Tiruveedi

A method of generating a test database from a deployed database by 'sanitizing', or removing sensitive data, is employed for recreating problem scenarios from a customer site, verifying compatibility of customer data with database version updates, and for performance testing using actual, rather than generated, database structures. In database management operations, in can be beneficial to use data generated from actual operational scenarios rather than artificially generated data created from a test pattern. Data generated from actual operation, such has at a customer site, assures compatibility with the relation patterns and record volumes employed by the customer (user). However, databases often contain sensitive information that would be inappropriate, illegal, or vulnerable in a testing environment. Accordingly, the generated test database overwrites sensitive data values with benign, or generic values while preserving the structure and relations of the data stored.

Method and apparatus for database sanitizing

Generic method and apparatus for database sanitizing

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