November 2004 - Posts

PSS stress & performance analysis tools for SQL Server

posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 4:18 PM by gux
READ80TRACE and OSTRESS are two useful --but unsupported-- tools used by the Microsoft SQL Server Product Support teams. They can be downloaded from here (1.7M .exe).

Free database systems, drivers, tools & other stuff

posted Friday, November 19, 2004 9:30 PM by gux

http://www.thefreecountry.com/sourcecode/database.shtml

I noticed there the LEAP RDBMS, a great tool recommended for courses. Back when I used to teach database courses I used LEAP to teach relational model and algebra, with great success. The LEAP RDBMS is now sourceforged for free.

T-SQL Unit Testing with TSQLUnit

posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 1:10 PM by gux

This article about T-SQL Unit Testing, written by S.A. Miller shows the big picture. TSQLUnit is an open source unit testing framework for T-SQL written by Henrik Ekelund and available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tsqlunit.