Brian, I don't think the choice is either-or. You can't recover from a media failure or a disaster using flashback database so it isn't a replacement for RMAN. Regards David Lord On 19/02/2008, Brian Lucas <moabrivers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Outside of reinstantiating a primary database after a failover in Data > Guard, are there any compelling reasons to use Flashback database versus > RMAN for a 10gr2 database that's only about 100GB in size? It definitely > seems like RMAN still holds the advantage. > > I like flashback query and flashback table but I'm having a hard time > swallowing the need for flashback database. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l