While we're all familiar with the term benchmarketing, how do you tell fact from fiction? Planning and performing a proper, accurate, and scientific database benchmark isn't always easy. And, while database benchmarks are performed for many different reasons, this session would cover the proper techniques, methodologies, and tools for performing the most common database benchmarking scenarios: hardware configuration comparison, database release comparison, and internal application benchmarking.

Tools covered will include the Oracle Linux Test Suite (OLT), Real Application Testing, and Quest Software's Benchmark Factory..