13 HammerDB : Load Testing

HammerDB is well known load testing application. Formally known as Hammerora.

You can download the latest version from SourceForge . http://hammerora.sourceforge.net/ 

Installation

Very straight forward.  It does not have the Chinese language , Maybe I should create one  

We need to pay attention on the connection property. Generally, I use HostName,PortNumber to connect to the SQL Server.  However, the HammerDB is using Name Pipe to connect to the SQL Server. If we simply use Host Name ( in the example below , the host name is SGC3), we would get the name pipe error: 

{[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0]Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [2]. }
Therefore, we have to use HOSTNAME\INSTNACE_NAME

Create Virtual User

Start Transaction counter

Run Virtual Users

From HammerDB console, you can see 3 virtual users has execute the query .

Switch to the transaction counter, you can see the transaction statistic .

 

From SQL Server Activity monitor, you can see there are three spid coming from Tk 8.6 which is the HammerDB processes.

Stop the Virtual User

You can also find other Load testing tools from my previous post.