Hi, You need to recreate the standby database once to change the dbid. Regards On 10/19/07, Prasad <p4cldba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Nial, you are right.this is a cloned db which we created for a different customer and now we have to put into rman backup -Prasad On 10/19/07, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: why would you care what the dbid of a production db was? what possible reason is there for changing it? Changing a cloned dbid makes sense but i'm struggling with your scenario On 18/10/2007, Prasad < p4cldba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All, > > I have a need to change the dbid for a primary db. Will it sync the new > dbid on all the standby databases. > Please let me know > > thanks in advance. > -Prasad > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com