Mark (mwf) replies: > Are you talking about supporting update queries of the form update > <some_table> set {some column assignments} where rowid in (<some list of > rowids on the source>)? > That will not work. And that's exactly what I figured. However, the documentation makes this slightly confusing as it specifically says that the ROWID "datatype" isn't supported. > Next question: Do you need Active Dataguard? That depends on how quickly you > want to be able to query changes on the target. If something like "as of > last night at midnight" is good enough and IF you have space and appropriate For the sake of argument, I'll say that the business demands are within an hour. I know, I know... > Did I mention this is not the appropriate solution for everyone? Check. We > probably do not need a laundry list of the cases where it is less good than > active DG, since I hope most of them are obvious. Painfully obvious. I just wanted confirmation that my interpretation of the docs was reality. Thanks Mark! Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l