By Kevin Dalton on
3/9/2010 8:59 AM
In the final part of this series on BFScripts, we will look at the different ways you can use BFScripts to your benefit, including when performing user load tests and when connecting to a database.
The most common use of BFScripts is to randomize SQL statements when simulating large numbers of users. As I mentioned in the first part of this blog series, , you will yield unrealistic results by submitting the same SQL...
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By Kevin Dalton on
2/23/2010 7:28 AM
In this blog, part 2 of a three part series, I will show you some ways BMF helps you in creating your BFScripts.
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By Kevin Dalton on
5/1/2009 11:22 AM
One question that has been coming up lately is how I can randomize my SQL so that not every user is submitting the same statements. This is very important in creating a realistic workload to correctly perform a database performance test. Without this step the database will either pull data from cache or there will be a larger than normal amount of constraints/conflicts, such as updating the same row in a table.
Fortunately,...
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By Kevin Dalton on
3/12/2009 9:41 AM
Welcome to my first blog! I am very excited about this opportunity to relay information about benchmarking/performance testing and, in particular, Benchmark Factory for Databases (BMF), but where to begin? For my first blog, I’ll start on the topic of latency.
One key thing to understand when doing testing is the characteristics of the workload, and a big piece of the workload is how fast the transactions are submitted...
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