It's officially a bug now.. Thanks for all assistance :) On 11/10/12 2:12 PM, De DBA wrote: > G'day. > Environment: > Solaris 11, local zone > Oracle 11.2.0.3.3 RDBMS and ASM > > I did open an SR on this, but it's quite urgent... I've got a standby > database in an Active Dataguard setup that was opened as Snapshot > Standby twice, with a convert to physical in between. The sequence of > events is: > > - convert physical standby to snapshot standby > - open read/write and perform some serious testing > - convert snapshot standby to physical standby ( to restore the initial > test baseline - no redo apply at this stage ) > - convert physical standby to snapshot standby again > - do more serious testing > - convert snapshot to physical again.. ERROR > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l