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megalan247··on Ask HN: How do you test SQL?
I experienced this issue in many companies and found there to be no real solution, especially when not testing with the real data. This was one of the reasons I created DrvDB [1] as it allows you to store a copy of the data and very quickly spin up containers to test large databases in CI, and verify the output, performance, etc. is what you expect.

You can achieve the same thing with "docker commit"-ing data into docker images of your dB engine of choice, and firing your queries on them, but that only really works with smaller datasets.

[1] https://devdb.cloud

megalan247··on Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
https://browserbase.io/

I got frustrated with the existing options for running automated QA tests (they are all super expensive) and decided to build my own for a fraction of the cost. It was super interesting as I am not really a developer so it taught me a lot about various programming languages (the frontend is written in Node and the backend is in Go), and so much about infrastructure. It was super rewarding as this is the first side-project that I didn't stop half way through :D