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Simulating Production Workloads with SQL Server Distributed Replay
The ability to recreate a production database workload on another server is an incredibly useful tool to have. In this course, you will learn to do this with ease on SQL Server’s Distributed Replay.
Intermediate
- Course
Simulating Production Workloads with SQL Server Distributed Replay
The ability to recreate a production database workload on another server is an incredibly useful tool to have. In this course, you will learn to do this with ease on SQL Server’s Distributed Replay.
Intermediate
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The ability to replay a production database workload in controlled circumstances can be very useful for testing, in both functionality and performance testing. In this course, Simulating Production Workloads with SQL Server Distributed Replay, you will learn how Distributed Replay offers a way to replay a workload from multiple clients, preserving the order of operations in the process. First, you will go through the setup of Distributed Replay (DReplay). Next, you will explore all the necessary configurations in order to capture, process, and run a replay. Finally, you will discover options for monitoring the effects of running the trace. By the end of this course, you will have a foundational understanding of SQL Server Distributed Reply and how it can help you recreate a production database’s workload on another server.
Simulating Production Workloads with SQL Server Distributed Replay
Intermediate
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Gail Shaw is a Data Platform MVP and holds the MCM certification for SQL Server. Her specialties are in performance tuning and database recovery for SQL Server. She is a frequent poster on the SQL Server Central forums, writes articles for both SQLServerCentral.com and Simple-Talk.com, and often speaks at SQLBits and the PASS Community Summit.