David, my experience with oracle documentation is that it is very good if you know the subject and looking for some technical information. If I wanted to get some general ideas first, I have always found books/articles on the subject more useful than Oracle's doc. thank you Gene Gurevich "David Sharples" <davidsharples@gm ail.com> To genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11/13/2006 04:28 cc PM oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject Re: Oracle standby (data guard) ok, obvious question - whats wrong with the docs, the dataguard stuff is damn good On 13/11/06, genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < 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. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l