dominicgiles.com contains a wide variety of information but will probably be of more interest to those working with Oracle database technology. A large part of the site contains downloads and documents relating to the “swingbench” load generator and various other Oracle specific utilities. You can download the utilities listed below from the downloads page along with various pieces of documentation.
Swingbench
An easy to use Oracle database load generator. It comes with a set of benchmarks and wizards to create them. Typically used to test features of Oracle or evaluate the performance of a new piece of hardware.
CPU Monitor
CPU Monitor is a lightweight Java app that uses Secure Shell (ssh) to scrape information from a server and chart its configuration and current load. It currently supports Linux, Solaris and Mac OS servers.
Database Time Monitor
Database Time Monitor is a simple standalone tool that enables you to see how “Database Time” is being used by your Oracle application. It will run against Oracle Enterprise and Standard Edition.
Monitor DB
Monitor DB is a simple SQL visualisation tool that enables you to chart triplet values to a graph and record the values to a file. Whilst it is expected it will mainly monitor Database Stats it can be used to chart anything that can be selected with SQL inside of an Oracle Database.
Datagenerator
A utility for the creation of tabular data either random or based on existing values. Data can be loaded directly into an Oracle database or stored on the filesystem. Users simply define, or reverse engineer, the table they wish to generate data for
Trace Analyzer
Trace Analyzer is a simple tool designed to display SQL trace in a Graphical format and hence providing a richer and more interactive way of display the data.