If you have a dba on the back which does not allow you to create tables then the only path forward for you is to use standalone. DAS requires to creates/drops tables priviliage which i personally find very annoying. specially using the iwov_idmaps table. If you have not too much content then go for standalone and full (against STAGING) or if its a lot of content the go for standalone and differential deployment (STAGING against the last Edition) and snap an edition after each deployment. We've been using that for quite some time now and its just doing the job. M