When developing databases, it is necessary to generate sample data for testing and validating database functionality to detect any issues before they appear in production. Gata generation is very often used by database developers, database administrators, analysts, or testers. In data generation scenarios, users have populate tables with different random data, including datetime values if they work work with time-related information.

In the article, we'll explore what DATETIME and TIMESTAMP are and how they differ. We'll also examine how to generate random timestamp and datetime data using the MySQL Data Generator tool available in the MySQL GUI tool - dbForge Studio for MySQL.

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