If you can dig it up, you may want to refer to the old Oracle7 documentation. I am told (although I have never verified personally) that the old procedures for building a and maintaining an Oracle7 "standby" database work just fine with Standard Edition. In its most basic form, at least, all DataGuard does for you is provide a mechanism to transfer archived redologs and automatically applying them to the standby. Providing you are on a UNIX-like platform, neither operation is particularly hard to script. You need little more than SSH, SCP, SQL*plus, and a little imagination. I have seen one or two such scripted solutions for 9i and 10g Standard Edition, and they do a very good job of emulating DataGuard in "maximum performance" mode. Sadly, they are not mine to share. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Ronnie Doggart <ronnie_doggart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All, > > Does anyone have any white papers or step by step examples of setting up > an Oracle 10G environment with a standby database that does not use Data > Guard. > > This is for an Oracle 10G Standard Edition environment. > > All pointers welcome > > Ronnie Doggart > > The information in this message is confidential and may be legally > privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message > by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any > disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or > omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. > Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in > error. > > The views and opinions expressed in this email may not reflect the views > and opinions of any member of Lagan Technologies Limited, or any of its > subsidiaries. > > Lagan Technologies Limited is a company registered in Northern Ireland > with registration number NI 28773. The registered office of Lagan > Technologies Limited is 209 Airport Road West, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT3 9EZ. > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Cheers, -- Mark Brinsmead Senior DBA, The Pythian Group http://www.pythian.com/blogs