Hi All, I have a question that may be a touch backwards. My option is to create a standalone instance on 10G or single-node RAC 10G. Aside from support, does anyone have any pros and cons to potential approach. ...uh, cost. note, if you create a database with MAXINSTANCES>0 and add threads of redo, it is technically a RAC database. You can create it this way, run it this way and not have RAC linked in. I'd consider going that way--unless money grows on trees :-) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l