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: ha54c492e32dece2e
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00019484034
Overall Rank: 383 | 97.43%
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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9,222	SQL-Factory: A Multi-Agent Framework for High-Quality and Large-Scale SQL Generation	2026	VLDB	5.2056825e-05
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10,872	Detecting Data-Type-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Compatible Database Construction	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,547	Understanding and Reusing Test Suites Across Database Systems	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,786	A Framework for Testing Query Transformation Rules	2009	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
13,048	Parallel Execution of Test Runs for Database Application Systems	2005	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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