About Workload Folding

Database Replay enables you to perform scale-up testing by folding an existing workload capture. For example, assume that a workload was captured from 2 a.m. to 8 p.m. You can use Database Replay to fold the original workload into three capture subsets: one from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m., a second from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., and a third from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. By replaying the three capture subsets together, you can fold the original capture and triple the workload during replay to perform scale-up testing.

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