El mar, 10-02-2009 a las 10:24 +0100, Stefan Knecht escribió: > I believe that feature was introduced with 10g, that Oracle > automatically detects wether it's a standby controlfile or not, and > mounts it accordingly after a standard "ALTER DATABASE MOUNT;" > > Cheers > > Stefan Well who knows if it's a bug, but yesterday due a mistake I executed 'startup' in a standby database ( synchronized via logwriter async ) and the startup process mounted it and opened it (?) Without executing nothing more, I did shutdown immediate and startup nomount; alter database mount standby database; recover managed standby database disconnect from session; And was applying archives and redo log syncing happily... D. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l