What is the difference between "dump data" and "dummy data" in MySQL?

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What is the difference between "dump data" and "dummy data" in MySQL? And I want to make sure the purpose of dump data is to back up their data and dummy data is test functions. right?

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dump data is date dumped to an external file, for backup purposes. dummy data is mock data, often used to test a database. In production, e.g. you could use a tbale with towns in your country. to test the application, you can use any town names, even town that do not exists. That is dummy data.