On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 11:12:19 -0500, Duret, Kathy <kduret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is anyone using Dataguard? Is it worth the extra $$. Extra $$ compared to what? If you have already bought EE - as others have said - then I would definitely go with DG. If you are considering buying EE - "just for" DataGuard *and just to provide a standby database* then I'm on record as saying it probably isn't worth it. Manual standby works just as well as it ever did. Where DataGuard (9i+) scores is in the following areas. 1. Ease of administration. 2. Supportability (try talking to a support analyst about manual standby its harder than you might expect). 3. Flexibility. Try doing 5 different standby locations manually. It also ought to score in the area of logical standby - but I haven't used that and in a survey of about 200 or so people at a SIG at which I was presenting i could only find one user of Logical Standby. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/