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: 8524
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00024046204
Overall Rank: 405 | 97.19%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Don Slutz

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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99	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00050043993
882	QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00015634206
2,242	Procedural Extensions of SQL: Understanding their usage in the wild	2021	VLDB	9.2124242e-05
2,280	Generating Targeted Queries for Database Testing	2008	SIGMOD	9.1247368e-05
2,657	Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Optimizations in DBMS	2023	SIGMOD	8.3636172e-05
2,899	APOLLO: Automatic Detection and Diagnosis of Performance Regressions in Database Systems	2020	VLDB	7.9478977e-05
3,011	FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store	2021	SIGMOD	7.716566e-05
3,102	Oracle Database Replay	2008	SIGMOD	7.5604346e-05
3,563	Counting, Enumerating, and Sampling of Execution Plans in a Cost-Based Query Optimizer	2000	SIGMOD	6.9686532e-05
4,505	Testing Graph Database Systems via Graph-Aware Metamorphic Relations	2024	VLDB	6.1290872e-05
4,640	A genetic approach for random testing of database systems	2007	VLDB	6.0226611e-05
5,238	Consistent Synchronization Schemes for Workload Replay	2011	VLDB	5.606943e-05
5,289	LearnedSQLGen: Constraint-aware SQL Generation using Reinforcement Learning	2022	SIGMOD	5.5790771e-05
6,143	Detecting Metadata-Related Logic Bugs in Database Systems via Raw Database Construction	2024	VLDB	5.1867156e-05
6,718	Efficient Regression Tests for Database Applications	2005	CIDR	4.9459755e-05
7,724	Semantic Conformance Testing of Relational DBMS	2025	VLDB	4.6622637e-05
8,273	Constant Optimization Driven Database System Testing	2025	SIGMOD	4.5392079e-05
8,475	SQALPEL: A database performance platform	2019	CIDR	4.4976682e-05
8,896	SQL-Factory: A Multi-Agent Framework for High-Quality and Large-Scale SQL Generation	2026	VLDB	4.4229886e-05
9,394	CEDA: Learned Cardinality Estimation with Domain Adaptation	2023	VLDB	4.3401448e-05
9,901	Robustness of Updatable Learning-based Index Advisors against Poisoning Attack	2024	SIGMOD	4.2539423e-05
10,067	Detecting Logic Bugs in DBMSs via Equivalent Data Construction	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,114	SRS: Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Implementation in DBMSs via Set Relation Synthesis	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,156	Divo: Learning a Stable and Effective Query Optimizer with a Diverse Workload	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,188	One DBMS, Two Modes, and a Bunch of Bugs: Catching Logic Bugs in Distributed DBMSs via Differential Testing	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,587	Fucci: Database Transaction Fuzzing via Random Conflict Construction and Multilevel Constraint Solving	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,611	Detecting Schema-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Equivalent Database Construction	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,630	Simple Testing Can Expose Most Critical Transaction Bugs: Understanding and Detecting Write-Specific Serializability Violations in Database Systems	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,998	Understanding and Reusing Test Suites Across Database Systems	2024	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,310	A Framework for Testing Query Transformation Rules	2009	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,574	Parallel Execution of Test Runs for Database Application Systems	2005	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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