The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use data access technologies. This module deals with enhanced support for JDBC based data access layers.

Fast running tests can executed with a simple

mvn test 

This will execute unit tests and integration tests using an in-memory database.

To run the integration tests against a specific database you nned to have the database running on your local machine and then execute.

mvn test -Dspring.profiles.active=<databasetype> 

This will also execute the unit tests.

Currently the following databasetypes are available:

• hsql (default, does not need to be running)
• mysql

mvn test -Pall-dbs 

This will execute the unit tests, and all the integration tests with all the databases we currently support for testing. The databases must be running.

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