Gathering Transaction Per Minute Metrics from SQL Server and HammerDB

Originally written in March 2015, this article explored the challenges that one needs to address when using HammerDB to record performance activity metrics such as transactions per minute and how to overcome these hurdles. The focus was made on collecting transactions per minute metrics from Microsoft SQL Server.
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