Release Notes
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Quest Software is pleased to make available Benchmark Factory® 9.0 to meet your database workload testing needs. Benchmark Factory is a database performance and code scalability testing tool that simulates users and transactions on the database and replays production workload in non-production environments. With Benchmark Factory developers, DBAs, and QA teams can validate that their databases will scale as user loads increase, application changes are made, and platform changes are implemented.
Benchmark Factory is available for Oracle®, SQL Server®, IBM® DB2®, SAP®, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and other databases via ODBC connectivity. Benchmark Factory:
Upon completion of a test execution, all test results are collected and stored in the repository for data analysis and reporting. Benchmark Factory collects a variety of informative and detailed statistics that include:
This release of Benchmark Factory includes the following new features and enhancements.
This release of Benchmark Factory includes support for the following database versions:
Oracle 21c
SQL Server 2022
PostgreSQL 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
MariaDB 10.x, 11.x
MySQL 8.0.36
IBM® DB2® for z/OS 12, 13
Windows operating system:
Microsoft Windows 11
Microsoft Windows Server 2022
Linux operating system:
CentOS 8.x, 9.x (64-bit)
RHEL 8.x, 9.x (64-bit)
Oracle Linux 8.x, 9.x (64-bit)
Cloud support:
AWS RDS platform for MySQL, MSSQL, MariaDB
Azure SQL database
See Resolved Issues for more enhancements and resolved issues in this release of Benchmark Factory.
Learn more and connect with the community at the Benchmark Factory Community page on Toad World.
SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008 R2
PostgreSQL 9.4 and older
IBM® DB2® for z/OS 9.x and 10.x
Windows operating system:
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Windows® 7 Service Pack 1
Microsoft windows 8
Microsoft windows 8.1
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release of Benchmark Factory.
| Feature | Resolved Issue | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Filter options | When users attempt to exclude multiple filter options using the Capture Scenario Wizard, Benchmark Factory (BMF) only recognizes the latest option and ignores the earlier ones. | BMF-5793 |
| Azure Managed Instance SQL | Benchmark Factory displays an error when users enter a long hostname while connecting to an Azure Managed Instance SQL Database. | BMF-5726 |
| Capture | Benchmark Factory displays an error when users attempt to capture a SQL command of more than 8,000 characters. | BMF-5725 |
| Capture and Replay | When users capture the database workload and replay the captured trace file on the Oracle 19c PDB database, the data in the target database is getting modified. | BMF-5708 |
| Compare report |
The Compare report generated through the execution of Capture and Replay for Oracle is not displaying the following reports:
|
BMF-5707 |
| Capture and Replay | Benchmark Factory is displaying an error when users execute Capture and Replay on the Oracle 19c PDB database to view the Playback AWR Report. | BMF-5706 |
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