Hi Dennis Thanks for taking time out and responding. In many systems what i have seen is the EDW is huge and they just cannot afford to do without nologging operation For management disaster recovery means when the building blows up we start operating from another country and we start working . With these kind of systems in mind when the interviewer persisted with dataguard option i explained to him dataguard means frequently recreating the standby becuase of the nologging operations. I was more on the expensive things like EMC Symetric technology or any kind of storage based replication. Let me see if i get the job offer :-). But i would be very happy to see what the experts think here are there any other solutions apart from storage based replication regards Hrishy ____________________________________________________ Which email service gives you unlimited storage? http://uk.mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l