how to mimic traffic to SQL 2005 to learn performance turning in SQL 2005?

  • My workplace hasn't adopted SQL 2005 yet, but I want to get myself familar with those new dynamic management views that are introduced in SQL 2005 for performance monitoring and tuning. I have a home lab with sample database Adventure-works database, and I guess I need something to mimic the traffic to SQL server. Any suggestion on that?

    I did look at sqliosim.exe, the tool from MS, but seems like it is a disk/SAN testing tool.

    thanks

  • Cheap and cheerful....put a series of "typcial" scripts (select + updates, etc) together that can be randomly called by some utility....possibly either off the schedule or via multiple client sessions.

    For randomness you could put them all into one procedure and use some element of the system-clock to branch and execute different items.

    There are also some load/stress testing utilities out there .... haven't dug too deep myself into this arena (out of lack of necessity) .... but a google search may give you some leads.

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