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The zip option requires me to create a folder somewhere, unzip the files to it, create a short cut and a whole buch of stuff I'd rather not have to think about. With an installer, even with lots of dialogs I can lazily just click-click-click right through the buttons without having to really think about anything. I can accept the defaults and I'm happy. / comments
The zip option requires me to create a folder somewhere, unzip the files to it, create a short cut and a whole buch of stuff I'd rather not have to think about. With an installer, even with lots of...
Can we have a proper installer?
Can we have a proper installer for Reflector now? It really irritates me that it comes in a zip and I have to put it somewhere myself. I just want a quick thing that will install it for me without ...
First off, I realised it is a version 1.0 and while it is excellent at what it does I have some feature requests.
So, the plus points, because I was very impressed with it. It is fast at generating the data. It is easy to use, the user interface is very intuitive (if there is a help file I’ve not needed it yet). I love the creation of business names.
Now, the feature requests:
Mostly, I’d like to be able to make the data look more realistic.
For example, my test database was a for a tenant referencing system. The salary column can contain values from 5K to 200K (typically), but the random generation means that there is an even spread, while in reality it is a bell curve with most of the values concentrated rougly in the 15K to 25K range. A similar thing happens with the rent amount.
Another example would be that there are rules about whether a guarantor is needed, for example if the rent exceeds a certain percentage of salary (it is actually more complex than that, but for creating test data it will suffice) so even although I can set a percentage of nulls on the GuarantorId foreign key column it doesn’t necessarily come close to reality. E.g. a person renting a property for £350 per month, but with a 150K salary, does not generally need a guarantor.
A similar scenario happens with deposit vs. rent. Typically a deposit is not wildly different from the monthly rent. So, some way of creating rules for one column based on the value created for another would be great.
Those are my initial impressions, I've only been playing around with it for a short while. I hope the above is useful. / comments
First off, I realised it is a version 1.0 and while it is excellent at what it does I have some feature requests.
So, the plus points, because I was very impressed with it. It is fast at generating...