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: 8714
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00019342814
Overall Rank: 392 | 97.32%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Don Slutz (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{slutz_vldb98,
        title = {{Massive Stochastic Testing of SQL}},
        author = {Slutz, Don},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        year = {1998}
}

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