In the role transition doc: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e17022/role_management.htm#i1030646 is states: "Ensure temporary files exist on the standby database that match the temporary files on the primary database." I've not seen any example of what that means exactly. The standby seems to have record of the tablespace and temp datafile, but the file does not exist. Do I just need to touch the OS file or is rsync the method to the madness? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l