Thanks Niall, much appreciated! Regards, Dimitre Radoulov ----- Original Message ----- From: Niall Litchfield To: cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 9:08 PM Subject: Re: Data Guard licensing You can't use DataGuard in SE, you can do manual standby - the standby has to be licensed according to the terms you agree with Oracle Corp - i.e it isn't subject to the 10 days per year licence terms that are current for DG. I have a howto do the standby thing on my site if needed. I don't have a howto for the licensing thing :( On 7/18/05, Radoulov, Dimitre <cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, we have 9i (9.2.0.6) Standard Edition and as the alert.log states [:o)] Oracle Data Guard is not available in this edition. We plan to mount a second instance in standby and setup a custom procedure to apply the redo logs. As we have to use the standby syntax "alter database create standby controlfile as ... " and "alter database mount standby database" to mount the secondary instance, I was wondering if this is correct regarding the Data Guard licensing? Is it "permitted/authorized to use a SE in this way? Cheers, Dimitre Radoulov -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com