Michael, I found a number of bugs related to delayed update of applied_seq# of v$archive_dest_status, such as bugs 8822832, 8675089, 5678485. So it may not be a good idea to rely on this column to check for standby lag. Yong Huang --- On Fri, 10/26/12, Michael Dinh <mdinh235@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Michael Dinh <mdinh235@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Applying logs to standby in 11g To: "Yong Huang" <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, October 26, 2012, 8:29 AM Hello Yong, Here is the definition for 11.2 for the 2 views http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e25513/dynviews_1016.htm#REFRN30011 V$ARCHIVE_DEST_STATUS.ARCHIVED_SEQ# - Identifies the log sequence number of the most recent applied redo log received at the destinationV$ARCHIVED_LOG.APPLIED - Indicates whether an archived redo log file has been applied to the corresponding physical standby database I never understood the difference; hence, CASE WHEN archived_seq# - applied_seq# > 10 to ignore the discrepancies. BUG??? You are correct in saying - the "GAP" column in your script may be called "LAG" so it's different from GAP_STATUS -Michael. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l