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Marcelo Costa
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Using Python to create Oracle tables with random schema

Having a large amount of test data sometimes take a lot of effort, and to simulate a more realistic scenario, it’s good to have a large number of tables with distinct column types. This script generates random tables schema for Oracle.

If you want to set up an Oracle environment for dev and test purposes, take a look at: https://dev.to/mesmacosta/quickly-set-up-an-oracle-environment-on-gcp-hfd

Environment

Activate your virtualenv
pip install --upgrade virtualenv
python3 -m virtualenv --python python3 env
source ./env/bin/activate
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Install the requirements for the metadata generator
pip install -r requirements.txt
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Code

cx_Oracle
import argparse
import logging
import random
import sys
import uuid
from cx_Oracle import connect
_DATA_TYPES = [
'INTEGER',
'NUMBER(10,2)', 'VARCHAR2(10 char)',
'BLOB', 'DATE',
'TIMESTAMP'
]
_COLUMN_NAMES = [
'name', 'address', 'city', 'state', 'date_time', 'paragraph', 'randomdata',
'person', 'credit_card', 'size', 'reason', 'school', 'food', 'location',
'house', 'price', 'cpf', 'cnpj', 'passport', 'security_number',
'phone_number', 'bank_account_number', 'ip_address', 'stocks'
]
_DESCRIPTION_VALUES = [
'This is a random generated column',
'Description for random generated column'
]
_TABLE_NAMES = [
'school_info', 'personal_info', 'persons', 'employees', 'companies',
'store', 'home'
]
def get_conn(connection_args):
return connect(connection_args['user'],
connection_args['pass'],
'{}:{}/{}'.format(
connection_args['host'],
connection_args['port'],
connection_args['db_service']),
encoding='UTF-8')
def create_random_metadata(connection_args):
conn = get_conn(connection_args)
cursor = conn.cursor()
for x in range(connection_args['number_tables']):
query = build_create_table_statement()
print('\n' + query)
cursor.execute(query)
conn.commit()
cursor.close()
def get_random_data_type():
return random.choice(_DATA_TYPES)
def get_random_column_name():
return random.choice(_COLUMN_NAMES)
def get_random_column_description():
return random.choice(_DESCRIPTION_VALUES)
def get_random_table_name():
return random.choice(_TABLE_NAMES)
# This uses the HR schema that comes with the oracle express edition,
# if you have a different schema you can change that
def build_create_table_statement(schema='hr'):
table_stmt = 'CREATE TABLE {}.{}{} ( '.format(schema,
get_random_table_name(),
uuid.uuid4().hex[:8])
table_stmt = '{}{}{} {}'.format(table_stmt, get_random_column_name(),
str(random.randint(1, 100000)),
get_random_data_type())
for x in range(random.randint(1, 15)):
table_stmt += ', {}{}'.format(get_random_column_name(),
str(random.randint(1, 100000))) + \
' {}'.format(get_random_data_type())
table_stmt = '{} )'.format(table_stmt)
return table_stmt
def parse_args():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='Command line generate random metadata into Oracle')
parser.add_argument('--oracle-host',
help='Your mysql server host',
required=True)
parser.add_argument('--oracle-user', help='Your Oracle credentials user')
parser.add_argument('--oracle-port', help='Your Oracle server port')
parser.add_argument('--oracle-pass', help='Your Oracle credentials password')
parser.add_argument('--oracle-db-service',
help='Your Oracle database service name')
parser.add_argument('--number-tables', help='Number of tables to create',
type=int, default=1000)
return parser.parse_args()
if __name__ == "__main__":
args = parse_args()
# Enable logging
logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=logging.DEBUG)
create_random_metadata({
'db_service': args.oracle_db_service,
'host': args.oracle_host,
'port': args.oracle_port,
'user': args.oracle_user,
'pass': args.oracle_pass,
'number_tables': args.number_tables
})

Execution

export ORACLE_SERVER=127.0.0.0
export ORACLE_SERVER_PORT=1521
export ORACLE_USERNAME=system
export ORACLE_PASSWORD=system_pwd
export ORACLE_DATABASE_SERVICE=XEPDB1


python metadata_generator.py \
--oracle-host=$ORACLE_SERVER \
--oracle-port=$ORACLE_SERVER_PORT \
--oracle-user=$ORACLE_USERNAME \
--oracle-pass=$ORACLE_PASSWORD \
--oracle-db-service=$ORACLE_DATABASE_SERVICE \
--number-tables=500

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And that's it!

If you have difficulties, don’t hesitate reaching out. I would love to help you!

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