Hi Ram Here is my take offcourse i would be very keen to know about others viewpoint as there was one question that was asked to me in a interview recently regarding this 1)Replication that includes Streams,(which is slow) Quest Shareplex (its good) Golden Gate Software (its very good and was used in my project in prefernce to Streams) 2)Standby's Using SRDF/ASRDF you get disaster recovery and very little maintainence to do very fast no effect on the primary database very very useful if you perform ocassional no-logging operations.Uses storage CPU cycles so no performance drag on primary Oracle 11g's Active datagaurd but you cannot perform nologging operations on primary Oracle 10g's restore points and flashback database but the logs from primary wont be applied when you open it for read write ,and you cannot do nologging on the primary database. 3)Materialized view and Transportable tablespace Not really in the same league as the two above If you are poor then you should investigate this option. regards Hrishy ___________________________________________________________ Rise to the challenge for Sport Relief with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l