To get access to Oracle Metalink, you need to have an Oracle Support Identifier. If you don’t, try checking with your Oracle DBAs… that’s what I did. I asked my DBA to use his Metalink account to search and download the patch for me.

Re ODP.Net 11g Beta, I would guess that it includes the patch as well but I am not sure. I scanned through the readme but didn’t see any mentioning of light-weight transactions. It’s fairly easy to find out yourself if it supports lightweight transactions though… write some System.Transactions code against a single Oracle database and look at the DTC Transaction Statistics in the Component Services Management Console. If the stats don’t increase then you have lightweight transactions.

From what I have seen, the Oracle client software should be compatible with older versions of the Oracle servers. Meaning that ODP.NET version 11 should work fine with Oracle Database served 10g.

Chinh

How can I request it from Metalink? Do I need to create a new login?

Also, I am not very clear about different ODP.Net versions, so I have the following doubts -

1) If the version 10.2.0.3.3 supports light-weight transactions, won’t the version ODP.Net 11g Beta(11.1.0.6.10) support it by default?

2) I am using Oracle 10g (10.2.0.2.0), so can’t I use ODP.Net 11g Beta with this version of Oracle?

Thanks and regards,
Manoj.