This is a really good article to read if you're interested in any kind of systemic approach to load-testing, not just benchmarking databases. - open/closed loa

This is a really good article to read if you're interested in any kind of systemic approach to load-testing, not just benchmarking databases. - open/closed load generation strategies - nature of the systems-under-test being almost always that of a networks of queues - behaviour of systems-under-test tending to be non-normal and modal