Re[2]: SAP R3 and Locally Managed Tablespaces

Jim,

    I don't know about the others on the list, but I for one appreciate hearing about personal experiences of others with these crappy packaged packages. $ years ago we decided against SAP mostly due to the experiences of a local firm that had decided to implement it. At the time they were 2 months into the implementation when the German consultants "had enough" with their local IT folks, took the install disks/manuals, etc... & went home. Sounded like a bunch of control-freaks. That was further added to by a friend at the NOUG who added a tablespace to the database for index re-organization only to have the SAP software throw a hissy fit & drop the tablespace! Not sure what version of SAP that was, but WOW!! Anyway we're on PeopleSoft right now & although they do not support LMT's they don't care either.

Dick Goulet

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Author: "Jim Hawkins" <jhawkins_at_primary.net>
Date:       7/6/2001 12:09 PM

Jared,

I can't say that I have used LMT's with our SAP installation, however, I constantly modify storage parameters, and I really don't see a difference. That being said, I know how much of a control-freak SAP is. The problem is that SAP puts tables/indexes in certain tablespaces based on functionality. For example, the BTABD tablespace contains all transaction, heavy I/O tables, while the STABD tablespace contains all master data and transparent tables, etc. So if you organize LMT's based on size/storage characteristics, you would have to have multiple BTABD, STABD, etc. tablespaces. That would be the only thing I can see SAP being nervous about. In order to do table reorgs, I do this in the sense that I have a BTABD and a BTAB2D tablespace that I reorg the table to/from. Sorry if you already knew all this, but maybe others would benefit.

Jim

>
> In working with our SAP consultant, I've discovered that SAP may not
> yet support the use of LMT's on Oracle. Yes I know that SAP should
> not really care about this, but SAP seems to care about a number of
> things that would be best left to the DBA.
>
> Does anyone have experience with SAP and LMT's?
>
> TIA
>
> Jared
>
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