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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction to Test Data Management
  3. Test Data Manager
  4. Projects
  5. Policies
  6. Data Discovery
  7. Creating a Data Subset
  8. Performing a Data Masking Operation
  9. Data Masking Techniques and Parameters
  10. Data Generation
  11. Data Generation Techniques and Parameters
  12. Working with Test Data Warehouse
  13. Analyzing Test Data with Data Coverage
  14. Plans and Workflows
  15. Monitor
  16. Reports
  17. ilmcmd
  18. tdwcmd
  19. tdwquery
  20. Appendix A: Data Type Reference
  21. Appendix B: Data Type Reference for Test Data Warehouse
  22. Appendix C: Data Type Reference for Hadoop
  23. Appendix D: Glossary

User Guide

User Guide

Entity Discovery

Entity Discovery

To discover data relationships between source tables, create an entity profile. Entity discovery shows the tables that are potential entities.
The entity profile discovers entity relationships in the source data. An entity consists of related parent and child tables. The entity profile returns a list of possible entities by comparing column names in the source tables. You can select entities from the profile results to add to the project. When you run a data subset operation, the entities that you define for the subset determine the subset database structure and the data in the subset.
For example, the Employee table, the Employee_Detail table, and an Employee_Address table contain an EmpID column. The entity profile suggests that the Employee table could be an entity with two direct relationships. The Employee table has two child tables. When you view the profile results, you select the Employee table as an entity. When you run a data subset operation, you can create a filter on EmpID to retrieve the data for employees with an EmpID less than 2000. The data subset operation filters data for each table in the entity relationship.
If you select Entity as the profile type, and the physical database does not contain primary keys, the profile does not return any results. If you run the profile as a primary key and entity profile, the profile discovers possible primary keys and foreign keys. The profile returns results even if the physical database does not contain primary keys.

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