I have not played with GC yet. I loaded the "old" OEM off the client CD and then found out I needed OEM GC for Data Guard Broker to work. ~sigh~ So I switched to using the command line DGMGRL for now. Seems a waste to load GC for just a single instance db and it's physical standby. Do you need to license GC for anything? Shalom, Michael -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l