Hi Norman, On 02/15/2010 12:56 PM, Dunbar, Norman wrote: [trying to avoid overquoting] > > it is for this very reason that I have had a local copy of the Oracle > docs on my desktop (and/or laptop) for many years. Responses and uptime > were never much good (in my opinion) so a local copy was the only way to > go. > me too but I found that the downloadable "library" doesn't receive updates :( I know for a fact that my downloaded documentation library bundle didn't include information about problems with Clusterware and < 11.2 databases (node pinning). Very disappointing, especially since MOS is equally (un-)reliable. Update notifications are also published via RSS feeds (available via http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/new_html), but who wants to go through all of them... Well I guess there is no choice.... Martin -- Martin Bach OCM 10g http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/martincarstenbach -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l