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Benchmark Factory for Databases

Minimize the Risks of Database Change

Benchmark Factory® for Databases is a database performance testing tool that allows you to conduct database workload replay, industry-standard benchmark testing, and scalability testing. It enables you to deploy changes to your database environment with confidence by reducing the risks associated with patches, upgrades, migrations, and adjustments to virtual machine configurations through the incorporated load testing tools. Benchmark Factory is a more flexible, simpler, and less expensive alternative to Oracle Real Application Testing. Plus, it's proprietary workload capture and replay supports Oracle and SQL Server databases. With this workload replay and scheduling software, you can eliminate slow SQL database performance and dramatically simplify high performance database management, as well as do scalability testing.

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Whether you’re a database architect, developer or DBA, Benchmark Factory can help you:

Replay production workload in a test or development environment to simulate production scenarios and determine system throughput or find database breaking points (Oracle & SQL Server only)
Understand future performance problems and conduct "what-if" analyses
Make changes with confidence with a wizard-driven workflow
Validate performance and scalability improvements through reportable metrics
Capture workload subsets, as opposed to the entire database workload (unique to Quest)
Perform load tests on SQL scripts, PL/SQL, T-SQL code, and stored procedures under different concurrent user configurations
Simulate real database application workloads using industry-standard benchmarks (AS3AP, Scalable Hardware, TPC-B, TPC-C, TPC-D, TPC-H, and TPC-E)

Benchmark Factory can also help your organization:

Reduce the risk of costly downtime and inefficient performance
Eliminate the costs of outsourcing workload testing by automating the database-testing process
Have greater confidence in the deployment of database changes
Integrate with other Quest tools, like Toad® for Oracle, to support development and best practices

Before installing Benchmark for Databases , ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:

Repository	Benchmark Factory cannot run without a repository, and by default a MySQL repository is installed during the install process. After installation, you can remove the MySQL service and delete the MySQL repository, then select a repository of your choice. Benchmark Factory supports the following databases: Oracle SQL Server MySQL Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere (iAnywhere)
Memory	512 MB of RAM recommended Note: The memory required may vary based on the following: Applications that are running on your system. Size and complexity of the database. Amount of database activity. Number of concurrent users accessing the database.
Platform	1.0 GHz x86 or x64 compatible CPU
Hard Disk Space	120 MB of disk space for installation Note: The disk space required may vary based on options selected for installation.
Operating System	Microsoft® Windows 2000 Window 2003 Windows 2008 XP Professional Vista Windows 7
Database Server	Oracle: 8, 8i, 9i, 9.2, 10g, and 11g (Requires Oracle 8.1.7 client libraries or higher.) Note: Benchmark Factory for Databases has been tested on Oracle Exadata 2.0 running Oracle database 11g R2. Note: Oracle Capture/Replay of workloads must use Oracle 9i or higher. SQL Server: 7, 2000, 2005, and 2008 Note: Oracle Capture/Replay of workloads must use SQL Server 2000 or higher. Sybase: 12.5 and 15 DB2 LUW: 8.1.5 through 9.x MySQL: 4.5 and 5.x Note: All client libraries require the 32-bit versions.
ODBC Database Server	Benchmark Factory for Databases supports almost all databases that you can connect to using an ODBC 3.0 or later driver