Thanks to all that responded to my RMAN survey last month. I have a follow up question to ask. When asked "Why do you use a recovery catalog?", many respondents checked of the box "Because I have run into recovery situations where a controlfile only was insufficient" My question is: What are the recovery situations you have encountered where the controlfile was insufficient? You can reply privately if you like, and I will summarize for the list. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l