When it works its like magic! . There can be glitches and as the process can take a long time - if you are copying large tablespaces you might not get many test attempts. My mistake was not to have a test area set up to iron out any glitches. 2009/12/7 SHEEHAN, JEREMY <JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Hey all, > > I'm going into my first round of transportable tablespaces. I've done the > work, got it working with relatively no problems. I was certainly concerned > at first when I read how easy it was to do this... Naturally it made me > somewhat wary. > > I'm ready to migrate this on over to production, but I have a Data > Guard/Physical Standby configuration with my prod environment. My question > is this... > > Is it really as easy as just moving the data files to the standby server > and letting Oracle take it in? Again, it seems so simple that it makes me > wonder if there is more involved, you know? If anyone can shed some light > on this, that would be fantastic! > > Thanks in advance! > > Jeremy > Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you > really need to. > > -- Howard A. Latham