Re: About LMT's -- nice article

Just looked at the article real briefly, but seemed like a good article overall. Little mistakes like LMTs coming out in 8i and not 8.0 seem trivial . Also, to me it would seem that LMTs advantages are obvious (is that much encouragement really needed?), especially when also considering they are the new default in 9i.

We plan on moving several databases to LMTs and 9iR2 this year which are currently running 8.1.6. and 8.1.7 versions using DMTs.

"Noons" <nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:Xns9324CABA9FAF6Tokenthis_at_210.49.20.254...
> Following up on Stan, 16 Feb 2003:
>
> > http://www.dbazine.com/jlewis8.html
>
>
> really have a problem with the opening paragraph
> of that article:
>
>
> LMTs were NOT introduced in Oracle 8.
>
>
> They were introduced in Oracle 8i. And they only really
> became sufficiently debugged to be usable, with 8.1.7.4.
> There is, like, nearly four years in-between! Read metaclick
> patch bundle bug descriptions if you think they were usable
> in production before that.
>
>
> There is no point to be made in omitting the fact that LMTs are
> relatively "new" in Oracle terms, just for the sake of
> encouraging their use.
>
>
> There are still a LOT of users out there using 8.0
> (or even 7.3, as incredible as that may sound!)
> and this sort of thing can cause problems to their DBAs
> if it is read by someone that doesn't know the full story!
>
> Not nice: in most cases, it is NOT the dba's fault that
> managers have systematically refused to upgrade!
>
> --
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au.nospam
Received on Sun Feb 16 2003 - 22:49:45 CST