Yep, that's what I was thinking of! Regarding your previous comment about not wanting to use tracefiles, how else could you do it? I've never investigated it, but I just assumed that Oracle's RAT tool utilized tracefiles, under the covers. I can't think of how else it could be done.... -Mark ________________________________________ From: Allen, Brandon [Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 17:14 To: Bobak, Mark; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Affordable Alternatives to Database Replay It looks like he created the software Simora based on the ideas in Brewing Benchmarks: http://www.scaleabilities.co.uk/index.php/Simora/Introduction.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/simora/ Now to play with it . . . Thanks again Mark, Brandon ________________________________ Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l