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: 0.000196128
Overall Rank: 378 | 97.47%
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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8,884	SQALPEL: A database performance platform	2019	CIDR	5.2436626e-05
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9,256	SQL-Factory: A Multi-Agent Framework for High-Quality and Large-Scale SQL Generation	2026	VLDB	5.1860131e-05
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11,602	Understanding and Reusing Test Suites Across Database Systems	2024	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,835	A Framework for Testing Query Transformation Rules	2009	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
13,095	Parallel Execution of Test Runs for Database Application Systems	2005	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

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