Database Software

Hi,

i´m always facing the discussion, what is the big difference between using a catalog and nocatalog
i start with the points i know. could somebody please add some points? Thanks

(+) Catalog
1. All Controlfiles could be lost (but if you have controlfile autobackup it should not be a great problem without the catalog)
2. keep forever backup (controlfiles yould only save information up to 365 days)
3. many database backups could be administrated inside the catalog (but what if yoiu want to know: which of my 100 databases are not backed up yesterday?)
4. ....?

(-) i had some crash scenarios that worked only without catalog
(-) backup of the catalog
(-) another database on another server


Thanks
Marco