I ran a google search for a topic I started here today and, as I expected, the first result was the oracle-l history www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/*OEM*-*Repository*-*DataGuard*-Possible but then I found this: http://oracletweak.blogspot.com/2012/01/oem-repository-dataguard-possible.html Is this part of oracle-l or someone leeching oracle-l to generate traffic for their blog? Looks like this has been going on for about a year (posts from 2011). oh, well... it was a fun find. Cheers Alan.- -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l