Looking for something to slam a 72-core box. Arithmetic benchmarks like y-cruncher and Linpack have done alright, but I want something that's going to be SQL-focused. I heard good things about ...

HammerDB My current favorite tool for performing TPC-like benchmarks is HammerDB, formerly known as HammerOra. HammerDB is a free open-source load testing tool for Oracle (including TimesTen), ...

A free tool developed by government agencies in collaboration with the private sector, and made available last July, could have saved a lot of companies a lot of wasted time recovering from Slammer.