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# Populate and Secure Data Sets with Seeding

Save your company time and ensure data consistency and reliability when you seed data into a sandbox or production org for development, testing, and deployment. Seeding by Own from Salesforce enhances data security and compliance by maintaining object relationships during seeding.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with the Salesforce Data Mask managed package (Legacy) add-on license.</td></tr></tbody></table>

Create and configure seeding templates that reliably and continuously populate sandboxes and production orgs with necessary data. Give your team the data to reproduce customer use cases and production scenarios without privacy concerns. Transfer data easily between environments by using a seeding source with the latest data from a production org or from a specific sandbox.

To customize the data that you want seeded into a destination, choose to either only add records, update and add records, or delete and add records. The filter option in the seeding process lets you control the number, order, and type of records seeded for a selected template object. Adjust the amount of data seeded to fit your project's needs and preview a sample of the records to verify filter accuracy.

#### See Also

- [Seeding Data in Salesforce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.seeding_o.htm&type=5&language=en_US)