Hi, we have 9i (9.2.0.6) Standard Edition and as the alert.log states [:o)] Oracle Data Guard is not available in this edition. We plan to mount a second instance in standby and setup a custom procedure to apply the redo logs. As we have to use the standby syntax "alter database create standby controlfile as ... " and "alter database mount standby database" to mount the secondary instance, I was wondering if this is correct regarding the Data Guard licensing? Is it "permitted/authorized to use a SE in this way? Cheers, Dimitre Radoulov