Load testing Microsoft SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 database server with JMeter. This will also work on SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2005 and SQL Azure.
1. Download the “Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server” from Microsoft download center.
2. Extract the sqljdbc.jar
3. Update the CLASSPATH with the jar file path or copy paste the jar file under jmter\lib folder.
4. Create a Jmeter test plan having JDBC Connection connection configuration and JDB Request
5. Update Database URL as
jdbc:sqlserver://:1433;databasename=TestDB;
Server Name or IP is the database server name
1433 is the default port. It can be different in your case.
E.g: jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;databasename=TestDB;
6. Update JDBC Driver Class as
com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
7. Write the SQL query that needs to be tested in JDBC Request Sampler.