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A measure for measure

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Comparing the behaviour of the workloads of different transactions posed a problem for this research because the review of literature could not find a well-accepted comparison technique that could be relied on for such comparisons. This paper proposes the use of the rate of change of DBMS behaviour against a test parameter as a common basis of comparison between different transaction workloads. The hypothesis is based on the relationship between the rate of change of a specific workload and the degree of load it applies on the tested parameters, which implies less test time and cost.

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  1. School of Informatics Department of Business Computing, City University, London

    M. W. Youssef & N. Revell

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  1. M. W. Youssef
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Norman Revell A Min Tjoa

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Youssef, M.W., Revell, N. (1995). A measure for measure. In: Revell, N., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 978. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0049158

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