Release Notes
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Quest Software is pleased to make available Benchmark Factory® 8.3 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, 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.
The Benchmark Factory Agent for Linux can now be used when testing against the following database types (in addition to PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL):
This release of Benchmark Factory includes support for the following database versions:
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 Native Client
Beginning with Benchmark Factory 8.1, the Microsoft SQL Server Native Client (11.0) is no longer distributed along with Benchmark Factory.
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release of Benchmark Factory.
| Feature | Resolved Issue | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Connections - SAP Native | Corrected an issue in which getting the same database Environment in Editing Connection. This issue was discovered when editing the created connection then click Environment against an SAP ASE database connection. | BMF-4192 |
| Benchmark Factory REST API | Resolved an issue in which caused Benchmark Factory to unexpectedly stop as a result of deleting a Job when it is Running or Stopping. | BMF-5437 |
| Stored Procedure | Corrected an issue in which Benchmark Factory failed to import the Stored Procedure in a MySQL connection. | BMF-5237 |
| UI | Corrected Uninstall button display issue found in the Windows Settings| Add or Remove programs in Windows 10 environment. | BMF-5461 |
| Custom Mix Test | Resolved an issue in which caused Benchmark Factory to unexpectedly stop and close as a result of Running a Custom Mix Job with wrong date format in SQL Statement Transaction. | BMF-5457 |
| TPC-E Benchmark Test | SAP Native: Corrected an issue in which the TPC-E CustomerPosition transaction's SQL missing join condition. This issue was discovered when testing against an SAP ASE database. | BMF-5463 |
| Linux Agent | Corrected an issue in which the error log of Linux Agent generated in the wrong path. | BMF-5386 |
| Run Reports | Enhancement: Run Reports Import Test Result button now allow you to specify one or more Run Reports to import at a time. | BMF-659 |
| Feature | Resolved Issue | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Benchmark Factory Console | Corrected an issue which caused an error when a Standard user attempted to start the Benchmark Factory console under certain conditions. | BMF-5377 |
| General | Upgraded Third Party component to latest version. | BMF-5419 |
| Feature | Resolved Issue | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Adding SQL Transactions | Corrected an issue in which the same database was listed twice in the "Database" drop-down list in the "Add Stored Procedures" dialog (Test Options | Transactions | Add Stored Procedures). This issue was discovered when testing against an SAP ASE database. | BMF-3856 |
| Adding SQL Transactions | Corrected an issue in which existing procedures were not listed for the selected database in the "Add Stored Procedures" dialog (Test Options | Transactions | Add Stored Procedures). This issue was discovered when testing against an SAP ASE database. | BMF-3857 |
| Benchmark Factory REST API | Corrected an issue in which Benchmark Factory failed to include the SQL's bind parameter in a Custom test posted using the JSON format. | BMF-5217 |
| Capture and Replay | Corrected an issue which caused Benchmark Factory to unexpectedly stop and close as a result of high memory utilization when importing a very large number of Oracle trace files. | BMF-5013 |
| Capture and Replay | Enhancement: A new Execution Method, "Direct SQL Execute," has been added to the "Add SQL Transactions" dialog. Select this method to execute SQL without preparation. This can be useful when replaying a workload in which temporary tables are used. | BMF-5148 |
| Capture and Replay | When importing a SQL Server trace table, the SQL Server Trace Processing screen now displays statistics for only the imported SQL. | BMF-5248 |
| Capture and Replay | Oracle: Corrected an issue in which executing a SQL statement that included an in/out parameter with a NULL value caused in the following error: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error. | BMF-5253 |
| Capture and Replay | If an error is encountered during replay of an imported SQL Server trace table/file, the error message now includes more-detailed information, such as the name of the transaction that errored and the user scenario containing the transaction. | BMF-5302 |
| Connections - MariaDB ODBC | Corrected an issue that caused a "load_progress" error when loading tables during a Standard Benchmark test (TPC-C and TPC-D) using a MariaDB ODBC connection to a MariaDB database. | BMF-5305 |
| General | Oracle: Resolved an issue which caused Benchmark Factory to unexpectedly close when executing an Oracle SQL statement which returns a LONG data type column in the results. This issue was encountered during test execution, in the Session Editor, and during SQL Preview. | BMF-5142 |
| General | Oracle: Corrected an issue that resulted in the following error when executing a Select statement against an INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND data type column: ORA-24374: define not done before fetch or execute and fetch. | BMF-5163 |
| General | Enhancement: User Startup options have been added to the Timing tab for the "Test SQL for Scalability" test and the capture replay. The User Startup options allow you to specify when to start users. This allows you to adjust startup loads by staggering user startup times. | BMF-5297 |
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