How to generate load on MicrosoftSQL SQLserver on Windows from HammerDB on Linux

Posted on October 14, 2022October 17, 2022 by gary

HammerDB on Linux driving load to Windows SQL Server

Often it’s nice to be able to drive Windows applications and databases from Linux, especially if you are more comfortable in a Unix environment. This post will show you how to drive a Microsoft SQL Server database running on a Windows server from a remote Linux machine. In this example I am using Ubuntu 22.04, SQLserver 2019, Windows 11 and HammerDB 4.4

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Your IO performance benchmarks are BS and so are mine.

Posted on December 27, 2017July 13, 2019 by gary

When it comes to assessing fitness of purpose, even audited benchmarks are quite useless unless they incorporate failure testing alongside the load test. I helped develop the TPCx-HCI benchmark which mandates the simulation of a node failure.

Who cares about infrastructure benchmarking?

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Tag: tpc

How to generate load on MicrosoftSQL SQLserver on Windows from HammerDB on Linux

Your IO performance benchmarks are BS and so are mine.