> > all provided here and there 10 days ago. And I confirm the simple
> test
> > proves it. It's a show stopper when accessing the MON tables in
> > production.
>
> While I agree that the test does highlight the problem, I think the
> test case is a little extreme -- continuously querying the MON$ tables
> over and over...
>
> This suggests an abuse of what the MON$ tables were designed for.
>
>
> Sean

And what, exactly, was the intended use of the MON tables? Are you supposed
to query them once or twice a day? I see no benefit in that but I'd love to
know what benefit could be derived from few and infrequent queries. IMO,
snapshots are pretty meaningless unless you have a stream to analyse.
Alan