Apply for demo data sources and generate test data
Apply for free MySQL demo data sources when you want to test NineData workflows before connecting your own databases.
Overview
NineData provides two free MySQL test data sources for each user and organization. Before adding an enterprise database to NineData, use free data sources to test product workflows.
NineData creates the Employees Sample Database provided by MySQL in the free data source. For details about this database, see the official MySQL documentation.
Limitations
- Free data is available for 3 months after application and is deleted after it expires.
- Free data sources have a storage limit of 1 GB. After the limit is reached, the data becomes read-only.
- Free data sources are intended only for NineData feature testing.
- Each user (Personal modeAfter registering a NineData account, users are usually in personal mode by default. This mode is suitable for individual developers who back up, restore, synchronize, and compare their own databases or use SQL Console for daily development.) or organization (Organization modeOrganization mode lets administrators assign roles and resource permissions to users in an organization. It supports team collaboration while helping maintain data security.) can request up to 2 free data sources.
- Free data sources do not support automatic database creation. If you use a free data source as a data recovery target or data replication target, manually create a database with the same name as the source database in SQL Console before testing. Otherwise, the pre-check reports No DDL permission.
Before you begin
Sign in to the NineData Console with the user or organization account that will own the free data source.
Procedure
Go to Datasource > Datasource, and click Apply Demo.
tipNewly registered users can also click Apply for Free Datasource on the Home page. This entry is displayed only when no data sources have been added under the current user or organization.
On the Apply for Free Datasources page, select the number of data sources under Application Qty.. Up to 2 data sources can be requested.
Click Apply Demo. NineData creates the free data source and opens its SQL Console page. NineData then starts importing the demo dataset. This process takes about 30 seconds. After the import finishes, SQL Console displays Demo dataset imported successfully!.
tipTo manually import the test dataset from the SQL Console page, click Import Demo Dataset, and then click OK.
Result
The demo data source is created and the sample dataset is available in SQL Console for testing.