Using Data Spawner component (SSIS) to generate sample data in Dynamics 365

Nishant Rana's Weblog

At times we need to generate sample data for our entities in Dynamics 365 for various reasons, performance testing is one of them.

Data Spawner component which is part of KingswaySoft’s
SSIS Productivity Pack provides us the most efficient way of doing so.

Download the component here –

https://www.kingswaysoft.com/solutions/ssis-data-generation-anonymization-components/data-spawner-component

Let us generate the sample data for Contact Entity.

Add the Data Spawner component to the Data Flow along with the CDS Destination component in the integration service project.

Double click the Data Spawner to open the editor.

Click on Add + button to specify the columns, here we have specified four different columns.

We have kept the name for each of the columns, same as the schema name so that it is easy to map them in CDS Destination.

For the First Name column, we have specified Data Type as nvarchar and Spawn Type as the First Name, which will…

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