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Reinventing Performance Testing: Agile

Alex Podelko

So demand for automation was rather low and tool vendors didn’t pay much attention to it. Well, the situation is changing – we may see more automation-related features in load testing tools soon. If we have the testing approach dimension, the opposite of exploratory would be regression testing.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. SQLIOStress.exe The SQLIOStress test program (version 4.00.020 and later) contains special patterns to detect stale-read/lost-write problems quickly. This could manifest itself in many ways, including sync failures.

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