Turn email addresses into fake addresses for testing databases
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Posted by kitt at 16:42 on 12 October 2009
When you have live data in a testing database, you don't want to trigger emails that go to your users. In the case where you need the rest of the data, and need valid email addresses, append .example.com to turn current valid email addresses into syntactically valid email addresses, but not emailable addresses.
UPDATE `orders` SET email = CONCAT(email, '.example.com') WHERE email NOT LIKE '%example.com'; -- alternately, to undo this change, use replace UPDATE `orders` SET email = REPLACE(email, '.example.com', '');
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