Massive Stochastic Testing of SQL

Summary: RAGS stochastically generates valid SQL statements to stress-test DBMSs, greatly expanding the SQL input domain beyond manual testing. It achieves a million-fold speedup over human generation and execution, enabling scalable, massive workload-based reliability evaluation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8523
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00024053686
Overall Rank: 406 | 97.18%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Don Slutz

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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98	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00050023808
888	QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00015578618
2,237	Procedural Extensions of SQL: Understanding their usage in the wild	2021	VLDB	9.2212748e-05
2,277	Generating Targeted Queries for Database Testing	2008	SIGMOD	9.1241198e-05
2,650	Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Optimizations in DBMS	2023	SIGMOD	8.3708191e-05
2,891	APOLLO: Automatic Detection and Diagnosis of Performance Regressions in Database Systems	2020	VLDB	7.954658e-05
3,008	FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store	2021	SIGMOD	7.7239608e-05
3,098	Oracle Database Replay	2008	SIGMOD	7.5646066e-05
3,560	Counting, Enumerating, and Sampling of Execution Plans in a Cost-Based Query Optimizer	2000	SIGMOD	6.9723858e-05
4,503	Testing Graph Database Systems via Graph-Aware Metamorphic Relations	2024	VLDB	6.1349827e-05
4,644	A genetic approach for random testing of database systems	2007	VLDB	6.0259936e-05
5,234	Consistent Synchronization Schemes for Workload Replay	2011	VLDB	5.6123331e-05
5,371	LearnedSQLGen: Constraint-aware SQL Generation using Reinforcement Learning	2022	SIGMOD	5.5428776e-05
6,137	Detecting Metadata-Related Logic Bugs in Database Systems via Raw Database Construction	2024	VLDB	5.1916986e-05
6,717	Efficient Regression Tests for Database Applications	2005	CIDR	4.9507254e-05
7,726	Semantic Conformance Testing of Relational DBMS	2025	VLDB	4.6667388e-05
8,278	Constant Optimization Driven Database System Testing	2025	SIGMOD	4.5435639e-05
8,477	SQALPEL: A database performance platform	2019	CIDR	4.5019818e-05
8,896	SQL-Factory: A Multi-Agent Framework for High-Quality and Large-Scale SQL Generation	2026	VLDB	4.427232e-05
9,388	CEDA: Learned Cardinality Estimation with Domain Adaptation	2023	VLDB	4.3443083e-05
9,902	Robustness of Updatable Learning-based Index Advisors against Poisoning Attack	2024	SIGMOD	4.258022e-05
10,067	Detecting Logic Bugs in DBMSs via Equivalent Data Construction	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,114	SRS: Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Implementation in DBMSs via Set Relation Synthesis	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,156	Divo: Learning a Stable and Effective Query Optimizer with a Diverse Workload	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,188	One DBMS, Two Modes, and a Bunch of Bugs: Catching Logic Bugs in Distributed DBMSs via Differential Testing	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,578	Fucci: Database Transaction Fuzzing via Random Conflict Construction and Multilevel Constraint Solving	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,603	Detecting Schema-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Equivalent Database Construction	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,622	Simple Testing Can Expose Most Critical Transaction Bugs: Understanding and Detecting Write-Specific Serializability Violations in Database Systems	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,995	Understanding and Reusing Test Suites Across Database Systems	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,302	A Framework for Testing Query Transformation Rules	2009	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,565	Parallel Execution of Test Runs for Database Application Systems	2005	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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