How to simulate heavy database usage with SQL server 2005

Question

How can I simulate very heavy database usage on Microsoft SQL Server 2005?

For test purposes I need to push the sql server to the max.

The server is on a virtual machine and I don't care about network load, just CRUD operations, mainly inserts because I want to demonstrate how the database grows very quickly.

Answer 1

There are 2 free utilities from Microsoft called SQLIOSim (was SQLIOSTress) to spank the IO system and OSTRESS to replay trace files.