Java library to partially export a database while respecting referential integrity constraints

Posted by Mwanji Ezana on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Mwanji Ezana
Published on 2010-03-08T09:01:48Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 9:06 UTC
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My production database is several GB's uncompressed and it's getting to be a pain to download and run locally when trying to reproduce a bug or test a feature with real data.

I would like to be able to select the specific records that interest me, then have the library figure out what other records are necessary to produce a dataset that respects the databases integrity constraints and finally print it out as a list of insert statements or dump that I can restore.

For example:

  • given Author, Blog and Comment tables
  • when I select comments posted after a certain date
  • I should get inserts for the Blog records the comments have foreign keys to and the Author records those Blogs have foreign keys to.

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