I've got a customer successfully using dbVisit http://www.dbvisit.com/ to accomplish this -- it's somewhere between RYO scripts and going the full boat with EE. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Stuart Blackburn <sblackbu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anybody have any good examples of how to create a physical standby > database on Standard Edition? We're planning on rsynching the archive logs > to the standby server and running a script to manually apply the logs on the > standby database (which is mounted in standby mode). I'm also looking for > some good examples/strategies to monitor whether the standby database could > theoretically be successfully opened without actually opening the database. > Thanks. > > Stuart > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Dominic Delmolino