Changes in This Release for Oracle Database Testing Guide

The following features are new in this release:

• SQL Performance Analyzer Quick Check (SPA Quick Check)

  On some Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control database management pages, SPA Quick Check can validate the impact of a system change to the database workload before you make the change.

  See Using SPA Quick Check.

• SQL Performance Analyzer support for the multitenant architecture

  You can use a SQL tuning set that was transported from a non-CDB to a multitenant container database (CDB) as the input source to SQL Performance Analyzer by remapping its CDB identifiers.

  See Remapping Multitenant Container Database Identifiers in an Analysis Task Using APIs.

• Workload Intelligence

  Workload Intelligence comprises a suite of Java programs that enable you to analyze the data stored in a captured workload.

  See Using Workload Intelligence .

• Consolidated Database Replay

  Consolidated Database Replay enables you to consolidate multiple workloads captured from one or multiple systems and replay them concurrently on a single test system, such as a single Oracle Exadata Machine.

  See Using Consolidated Database Replay .

• Workload Scale-up

  Database Replay enables you to perform scale-up testing and stress testing in various use cases and scenarios.

  See Using Workload Scale-Up .

• Test data management

  The test data management features enable you to manage test data by using Oracle Data Masking and data subsetting.

  See Test Data Management .

The following are additional changes in the release:

• New book

  Oracle Database Real Application Testing User's Guide is now part of Oracle Database Testing Guide.

• New part

  Test Data Management is added to Oracle Database Testing Guide to describe the test data management features of Oracle Database.