MultiUser Testing Tool

Hello,
We are in process of rolling out our SQL Server version of our product.
During our beta testing phase we have started receiving problems in
scalability from some clients. The database starts doing a lot of blocks in
multi-user environment. This is not always very easy to replicate in-house.
We are now looking for a testing tool that will automate multi-user testing
while also providing useful information such lock chains and analysis of bad
locks (such as holding exclusive table/page locks for too long), etc when
there are blocks. Is there any testing tool that people here have used
before ? Any experiences or comments will be very useful.
Thanx, Amol.Hi
You may want to look at the dbhammer program that comes with the resource
kit and using profiler to caputure the information. Loadrunner is a more
costly alternative. You can also use profiler to script the functions you
may want to do, if these are segmented then you can chain them together to
produce specific activities.
John
"Amol Kasbekar" <apk@.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> We are in process of rolling out our SQL Server version of our
product.
> During our beta testing phase we have started receiving problems in
> scalability from some clients. The database starts doing a lot of blocks
in
> multi-user environment. This is not always very easy to replicate
in-house.
> We are now looking for a testing tool that will automate multi-user
testing
> while also providing useful information such lock chains and analysis of
bad
> locks (such as holding exclusive table/page locks for too long), etc when
> there are blocks. Is there any testing tool that people here have used
> before ? Any experiences or comments will be very useful.
> Thanx, Amol.
>
>