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If it were easier to do the thing I want, I'd do it all the time. What I want is to be able to point to either a database with empty tables or an SQL file and fill in the tables correctly with bogus data while respecting all the constraints. I have not found a tool that does that.
It is trivial to write something where a tool takes a spec written in a way the tool understands (but possibly nothing else) and then spew out data without having to worry about, e.g., foreign key relationships.
If I have a choice, I wire together something Perl that does what I want.
Sometimes, I do not have a choice and have to use something like https://www.mockaroo.com/ or https://generatedata.com/ but then I have fiddle with stuff.
I am fond of David Golden's https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Fake