Here is what I do. (I replied privately already before I got this far in the discussion). I have a 'template' database -- for the repeatable process -- and just use rman duplicate to create a new database... add a new tablespace(s) for taste. Its repeatable and all the scripts have already been run. Seems to work pretty easily -- a couple of additions like executing a new RMAN configuration, scheduling cron backup... but almost entirely self contained. ymmv Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 2:17 AM To: cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: 11.2 CRS with 10g Database Hijacking this a bit. Do people generally do as Alan does and use home grown scripts rather than dbca and database templates for repeatable database creation? Having recently gone through the catalog/catproc etc etc etc process I was surprised at just how long a db create takes these days. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l