Often you'll find yourself logged into a web or application server and need to simply test that you can get to the SQL server you've unsuccessfully been trying to point your app at. Luckily there is a nifty trick built into Windows that allows you to save the day without having to install anything on your box – and it works on both client and server operating systems just as well.
Why would i ever need this?
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- I've been tasked to stress test our MSSQL Server and MySQL Server. I would like to know if there are any tools or scripts which I could use on our current systems and the new system to compare performance? I would like to measure read / write to disk and processor performance. Anything else that may be useful would be great as well.
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Your app is having trouble connecting to SQL and you don't know what's wrong.
TSQLt Implementation Scenario. In order to implement tSQLt consider the following scenario: You want to implement tSQLt as your database unit-testing framework while all your database development, debugging, testing, deployment and refactoring is done through SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools). I am looking for a stress tool for SQL Server. I've seen a lot of suggestions on Google. But nothing of what I really need. I am really looking for a tool that could run a list of stored procedures in parallel to see how much contention on resources. The collect and reporting feature is not that important.
Is something wrong with your app?
Is it a network or firewall issue?
Is SQL even there…?
The 'so easy it almost can't be true' solution
The guys at Microsoft have baked a SQL Connectivity tool right into Windows with the creation of Microsoft Universal Data Link files (*.UDL) – something designed for another purpose.
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These were designed as a way to save SQL connection data for use in a whole range of applications and are available on pretty much every version of Windows since *eternity*.
They also provide an awesome way to test SQL Connectivity.
To make this work simply follow the bouncing ball:
Create a new file anywhere. For arguments sake create a new Text file on your desktop
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Now rename that file and change it's file extension to TestDatabase.udl (take note of the file extension).
GitHub - ErikEJ/SqlQueryStress: SQL Query Stress Simulator ...
Select 'Yes' when asked if you want to change the file extension.
This will give you a Data Link Editor that allows you to test the connection.
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Pretty nifty in times of need!
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(For the older web developers among us this might remind you of the panel you used for configuring a DSN for your ASP classic app… that's because it's the same panel!)