Preface

Oracle's Real Application Testing option enables you to perform real-world testing of Oracle Database. By capturing production workloads and assessing the impact of system changes before production deployment, Oracle Real Application Testing minimizes the risk of instabilities associated with changes.

Database Replay enables you to replay a full production workload on a test system to assess the overall impact of system changes. SQL Performance Analyzer enables you to assess the impact of system changes on SQL response time on a given SQL workload.

In this release, Oracle Real Application Testing only supports the following partial functionality:

• For Database Replay, only the capability to capture a database workload is supported

• For SQL Performance Analyzer, only the capability to capture a SQL workload into a SQL tuning set is supported

This functionality is provided is so that you can use this option to test database upgrades to Oracle Database 11g and subsequent releases.

This preface contains the following topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

This document provides information about how to assure the integrity of database changes using Oracle Database Real Application Testing. This document is intended for database administrators, application designers, and programmers who are responsible for performing real application testing on Oracle Database.

Documentation Accessibility

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http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398. Outside the United States, call +1.407.458.2479.

Related Documents

For more information about some of the topics discussed in this document, see the following documents in the Oracle Database Release 10.2 documentation set:

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day DBA

• Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Performance Tuning Guide

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: