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Data Generation Components

To perform data generation operations, assign rules to columns. Import metadata to define the columns in the target database.
The following table describes the components that you create to implement data generation:
Component
Description
Assignments
The allocation of rules to a column to generate the column data.
Plan
Defines data generation operations. You import the target schema metadata into the repository in the plan and configure the settings.
Rule
Defines the data generation technique and parameters.
A generation technique defines the logic to generate the data. Generation parameters define how a generation technique in a rule generates data.
You can set an override option in a rule that defines whether users can modify the generation parameters for the rule when they assign the rule to the columns in a target.
Table
The target table in which you assign a generation rule.
Entity
Defines a set of tables that are related based on physical or logical constraints.