Hello Gene, If you have access to metalink - search metalink for a DG articles - there are lots of good brief articles and examples. -Ron, DBA InfoPower, Inc. www.dbainfopower.com genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Hello: Can anyone recommend an article or a book (not RTFM) on Oracle standby database (data guard) for oracle 10G. I have worked with the standby on v7, but I presume that the 10G version is very different. thank you Gene Gurevich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l