Your pipeline is fast.
Your database isn't. Fix that.
CI/CD pipelines stall when test databases take days to provision. DataTamed delivers fresh, production-quality, PII-safe SQL Server clones on demand — without a DBA in the loop.
Three ways slow database provisioning
breaks your pipeline.
You've optimised everything else. The database is still a manual, DBA-gated bottleneck in your delivery flow.
The Pipeline Waits on People
Your CI builds in seconds. Your tests run in minutes. And then everything stops — because the test database isn't ready, the DBA is busy, or last week's restore has drifted so far from production it's no longer representative.
Stale Data, Ghost Bugs
Test environments that haven't been refreshed in weeks cause tests to pass on data that no longer looks like production. Bugs slip through because your test database doesn't have the edge cases your real users have generated.
Manual Post-Restore Setup
Every restore requires the same tedious reconfiguration: update connection strings, swap API endpoints, disable outbound email, seed lookup tables. It's undocumented institutional knowledge that breaks whenever someone new runs the restore.
A database provisioning layer
your pipeline can rely on.
DataTamed gives DevOps teams a repeatable, automated, GDPR-safe path from production backup to working test database — without manual intervention at any step.
On-Demand Cloning
The Clone Wizard lets any team member provision a fresh database in four steps. Pick the masked image, select the target agent and server, apply a SQL Script Set, and go. No tickets. No waiting. No DBA handoff.
SQL Script Sets — Config as Code
Create named SQL Script Sets that run automatically after every clone. Swap connection strings, disable outbound email, seed reference data, configure feature flags. Write them once — every clone is environment-ready without human touch.
PII Safety Built In
During import, DataTamed automatically detects and masks six PII categories before the image is stored. Every clone inherits that masking — so your CI environment never touches real customer data, and you don't need to maintain a separate scrubbing script.
Distributed Agent Architecture
Deploy DataTamed agents wherever your SQL Server instances live — dev, QA, staging, or UAT. One platform manages provisioning across your entire environment landscape, including Windows and Linux SQL Server.
Use Your Existing Backups
No migration needed. The Backup File Scanner reads .bak files from any local path or UNC share accessible to the agent — your existing backup jobs, your existing storage. DataTamed fits around what you already have.
Version Compatibility Validated
The Clone Wizard validates SQL Server version compatibility between backup and target before starting. No more failed restores because someone tried to load a 2022 backup onto a 2019 instance halfway through a build pipeline.
Post-clone setup, automated.
Every time. Identically.
The biggest source of environment drift isn't the data — it's the manual steps that happen differently every time someone runs a restore. SQL Script Sets eliminate that.
Update Connection Strings
Point the cloned database at test-environment endpoints — messaging queues, external APIs, storage accounts — via a simple SQL UPDATE.
Disable Outbound Actions
Swap real email addresses with test inboxes, disable payment processing, redirect webhooks — all via SQL update statements that run automatically post-clone.
Seed Reference Data
Insert known test accounts, lookup values, or feature flag overrides that your test suite depends on — automatically, every clone, every time.
-- 2. Disable outbound email UPDATE dbo.AppConfig SET ConfigValue = 'disabled' WHERE ConfigKey = 'SmtpEnabled';
-- 3. Seed test accounts INSERT INTO dbo.Users (Email, Role) VALUES ('ci-test@internal', 'Admin');
✓ Script Set applied — environment ready Clone time: 8s · Size: 67 MB · PII: masked · Scripts: 3 run
From backup to pipeline-ready
in four steps.
No DBA required. No ticket. No waiting.
Import & Mask
Point DataTamed at your .bak file. During import, PII is automatically detected and masked. The result is a clean, reusable database image — safe for any non-prod environment.
Configure Script Set
Create a SQL Script Set for your CI environment: connection strings, disabled integrations, seeded test data. Attach it to the database image — it runs automatically on every clone.
Clone on Demand
Any team member triggers the Clone Wizard. Pick the image and target server. DataTamed provisions a fresh, masked, environment-configured database in seconds — clones are typically just 60–70 MB.
Run Your Tests
Your test suite runs against production-quality, realistically structured data. Bugs that only appear in production start appearing in CI instead — where they're far cheaper to fix.
Everything a DevOps team needs
to own database provisioning.
The full feature set is included in every plan — no feature-gating that leaves the CI use case half-covered.
Clone Wizard
A guided four-step flow from database image to live clone. SQL Server version compatibility is validated automatically. Any team member can run it — no DBA expertise required.
SQL Script Sets
Define named collections of SQL that run automatically after every clone. Different script sets for CI, QA, UAT, and staging — all from the same base database image.
Distributed Agents
Deploy agents across your entire environment estate — dev, QA, staging, cloud, on-prem. Each agent handles cloning locally. One DataTamed server coordinates the whole estate.
SQL Server Discovery
Automatically discovers SQL Server instances accessible to each agent. No manual inventory. Every server in your estate visible from one dashboard.
Automatic PII Masking
Six PII categories detected and masked at import time. Every clone inherits the masked image — no separate scrubbing job to maintain, no compliance risk from stale masking scripts.
Database Image Management
Mount, unmount, lock, and track every database image from a central dashboard. Know exactly which images are live, which clones exist, and when each was last refreshed.
Make database provisioning
part of your pipeline.
Start a 14-day free trial. No credit card required. A member of our team will be in touch within one business day to help you get up and running.
- 14-day free trial, all features included
- Agent installed in under 10 minutes
- First clone in seconds — typically just 60–70 MB
- Works with your existing .bak files