All, I'm working on a big Data Guard project and recently bought a copy of the fine book 'Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook' by Larry Carpenter. There are scripts available from the book website called DG Menu. Has anyone used these scripts for Data Guard? I've just begun using them. Maybe we can share notes. Steve Gardiner gardiner9@xxxxxxxxx LinkedIn Profile www.linkedin.com/pub/steve-gardiner/a/724/88a/ This Day in Computer History http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/