Quick and Dirty Sample Data Generation

I recently tried the sample data generation engine at GenerateData.com. It is a quick and dirty way to generate sample data like names, addresses, etc. The only drawback is that the data is capped at 200 rows.

A more advanced and highly customizable way to generate sample data is usine tRowGenerator component in Talend. You can write your own functions that randomize and create strings from a subset or dynamically generate them.