HammerDB is an open source tool for Load testing and benchmarking built for Linux and Windows for databases like Oracle, SQL Server, IBM Db2, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Redis.
Questions tagged [hammerdb]
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HammerDB: what does 'Number of Warehouses' mean?
In HammerDB in schema building there is an option named 'Number of Warehouses'.
But the meaning of this term is unclear. I mean I know what 'warehouse' IS, but I don't understand what it MEANS in context of DB creation.
Could anyone explain this…
user17939629
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Oracle XE configuring for benchmark
Have a good day.
The task is to configure Oracle XE for performance benchmark using HammerDB. Well, the HammerDB script for creating schema and driver script are both done. But trying to create schema or run a benchmark Oracle XE returns me…
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hammerDB libmysqltcl.dll couldn't load
I installed hammerDB v4.6 on a AWS vm and I'm trying to connect to my aurora/mysql database on RDS, but when I start the schema build, I get this error
Error in Virtual User 1: Error: Failed to load mysqltcl - couldn't load library…

Benoit Desrosiers
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Benchmarking postgresql in hammerDB
I'm trying to benchmark postgresql in hammerdb getting below error:
Vuser 1:Checkpoint and Vacuum
Error in Virtual User 1: ERROR: must be superuser to do CHECKPOINT
Vuser 1:FINISHED FAILED
Vuser 13:FINISHED SUCCESS
Vuser 18:FINISHED SUCCESS
Vuser…
user3880406
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Checking Postgresqul library from hammerDB
We are trying to test postgresql from hammer db, getting below error when I run the librarycheck in in hammerdbcli. I'm using hammerdb version4.1 in RHEL7.9
Checking database library for PostgreSQL
Error: failed to load Pgtcl - couldn't load file…
user3880406
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Benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB
I am trying to benchmark MySQL with HammerDB using their TPROC-C benchmark. This is part of a research I'm doing where I am benchmarking MySQL and PostgreSQL. After running through all benchmarks with PostgreSQL, I started to benchmark MySQL by was…

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Connecting to DB2 HammerDB
I am using a Windows Machine to connect to a remote DB2 instance. Ran into this issue
SQL1531N The connection failed because the name specified with the DSN connection string keyword could not be found in either the db2dsdriver.cfg configuration…

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HammerDB - how to do in-memory testing with mysql, TPCC mode?
I was doing TPCC testing with HammerDB 3.1 and with mysql as a backend.
By looking at the resources consumption during testing, I don't think it does in-memory testing, as there is a lot of IO activity.
So my question is if with mysql server it is…

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SQL0199N error when trying to connect HammerDB to Db2 for z/OS
I'm trying to generate some data for DB2 11.1 z/OS using HammerDB v3.1 which is running on a Windows remote host. There is no ability to run HammerDB on the same host with DB2.
According to the HammerDB documentation I need to set up IBM Data Server…

Sergey Konotop
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SQL0206N error when trying to connect HammerDB to DB2 using db2dsdriver.cfg file
I'm trying to generate some data for DB2 10.5 LUW using HammerDB v3.1 which is running on a Windows remote host. There is no ability to run HammerDB on the same host with DB2.
According to the HammerDB documentation I need to set up IBM Data Server…

Sergey Konotop
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extra characters after close brace
When I use hammerDB to test the Oracle 12c database TPM, sometimes I get this error,
extra characters after close-brace。
I have 3000 warehouses and 100 virtual users. I only get this error sometimes, not every run.
Basic information
Red Hat…

han liu
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How long it takes to build schema, or my hammerDB not working?
Accoring to this link https://blog.sqlbak.com/how-to-run-sql-server-load-tests-using-hammerdb
I run Schema build
but it got stuck at this step for around 30 minutes already, is everything ok ?

Chau Loi
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