Database seeding

Database seeding is populating a database with an initial set of data. It is common to load seed data such as initial user accounts or dummy data upon initial setup of an application.

Entity Framework
\Migrations\Configuration.cs

Symfony PHP Framework
AppBundle/DataFixtures/ORM/customer.yml (as in Version 1 of hautelook/AliceBundle )

Laravel PHP Framework
app/database/seeds/users.php

Command line
MySQL: mysql -u username -p database_name < file.sql PostgreSQL: pg_restore -h hostname -d database_name -U username file.sql

Microsoft SQL Server: sqlcmd -S server_name\instance_name -i file.sql