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Test-Automation: Diff Data in Oracle Database - what are best practices? [closed]

We're re-writing a COBOL application in Java. We want to make sure, the applications behave the same, by validating our unit tests produce the same DB changes. How can we easily diff the data in the ...
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Unable to add unit tests in Visual Studio or SQL Server Management Studio

I've been looking at Microsoft's official docs and other websites (including this one) and am unable to create unit tests for stored procedures following their instructions. The things I've read say ...
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What does @RC mean in SSDT SQL Server Unit Testing?

In Sql Server Unit Testing, SSDT, what does @RC stand for? Does it mean Row Count, or Row Column? Team wants to understand, we have been using it for long time, good tool which works, just curious.
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Reinitialize Table Values in SQL SSDT Unit Testing

I am creating SQL Server Unit Tests. We are testing various stored procedures. In Unit testing principles, it is good practice to setup a small database table, populate values, and tear down (...
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What circumstances could a SQL DateTime column hold an invalid date?

I have been asked to write a series of tests within SQL. Many of them are to test if a certain DateTime columns held in the system is a valid date. Given that the all the fields in question are ...
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Test Driven Design for postgres procedures

I am looking to introduce a test driven design style to writing my stored procedures for a postgresql database implementation. I have seen that pgTap is a popular unit testing tool for postgres and ...
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Write a slow SQLITE query to test timeout

Is it possible to write a 'simple' SQLite query that will take more than 5 seconds to run. I am writing some unit-tests in my application to log slow queries, to that end, I would like a slow query ...
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What is the standard de facto unit test framework for Postgres?

I am new to Postgres and as I am about to start writing more and more code with it (script with procedures, etc.) I am wondering what is the "standard de facto" (more used, bigger community, open ...
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Optimizing MySQL 5.6 for unit tests

We have a MySQL instance for unit tests. Our unit tests work very heavily on MySQL. Therefore, we put /var/lib/mysql dir in tmpfs file system because we don't need persistent data in unit tests. Our ...
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Sql Server Stored Procs vs Linq with C# and unit testing

I'm going to run into a situation where I am, where the stored proc vs Linq is going to come up. I know I'm asking this in the DBA stackexchange so most of you might say use stored procs, but I'm ...
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DROP DATABASE statement cannot be used inside a user transaction

Not really sure if this question belongs here, but I hope someone could help me out. I've made integration tests going all the way down to the database (using mssql localDB). I want each test to run ...
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PgTap, unit test a foreign key is deferrable

I am using PgTap to unit test a Postgres (v9.4) database structure in a continuous migration process. It works great. Here is my question: « Is there a way to control that a foreign key constraint is ...
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How to do jUnit testing by PostgreSQL?

I found some packages like pgTAP but I would like to get community supported tools. I am using PostgreSQL 9.4.3 in Debian 8.1. I have many kinds of tests which I would like to do: INSERT by ...
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How do I unit test queries which are based on dates from now?

I've had a hard time making unit test for most of my queries because they are tied very closely to current dates and data which is added to the database could modify the result of the unit test. For ...
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Temporary schema per connection?

I am trying to migrate my unit tests from H2 to Postgresql. Currently, H2 gives me an in-memory schema such that each connection maps to a unique schema, creates the tables, runs the test, and drops ...
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How can I fake inet_client_addr() for unit tests in PostgreSQL?

I have a simple stored procedure whose return value depends on the value of inet_client_addr(). How can I override inet_client_addr() for the purpose of unit tests when testing my stored procedure? ...
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Can PostgreSQL support integration test with some kind of throwaway overlay?

It's a common problem to write integration tests that include a database. If the test changes the database then it could effect other tests or the next run of itself. I know that I could wrap my test ...
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EXPORT specific columns to INSERT statements

Is there a way to export specific columns and a fixed number of rows from a table to INSERT statements? I am trying to generate these for unit testing based on a large production table so using ...
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Unit testing of stored procedures

I've been considering this for quite a long time now. The basic question is: how to unit test stored procedures? I see that I can set up unit tests relatively easily for functions in the classic ...
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Is there any way to clear all tables using Liquibase?

I'm currently using Liquibase for creating test data in my database before each test run. I came across a problem where some of the test cases need special data, while others need the tables to be ...