Sandeep, If your network people are not swayed by the good advice you've received, to answer your last question: CONNECT / AS SYSDBA SELECT MAX (sequence#) last_log FROM v$log_history; --Terry > Hi, > > We need to implement physical standby database. Primary and standby > will be in two separate networks behind their own firewalls. Security > guys dont allow to ping from one server to other server. I can not > create sqlnet connection either. > > So from primary I ssh to a hop server and from there I ssh to standby. > Under given situation I assume that I can not set up data guard. Or is > there any way I can implement data guard? Is any suggestion to network > security folks that will let me connect from primary to standby > without opening any security risk? > > I have started looking into alternative solution using non-managed > standby. I created a standby database. I am copying the archived logs > from primary manually and applying on standby. Standby running behind > the primary acceptable here. Moving the archived logs will be > implemented through a perl script that will be called from cronjob. > In this script I have command "Recover standby database;" After that > if I do AUTO it applies all archived logs and give ORA-00308 for next > (not yet there) archived log. > This is the way it is supposed to be. > > Is there any way that standby recover to the last available archived > log and comes out cleanly? How can I query the last archived log file > applied on the standby database? > > Thanks > > Sandeep > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l