it sounds very nice for the request, just create a new standby and switchover to that db will fulfill all what you want, you can also switch back it if performance is not good after switch, i am not sure 9i has all the benefits as we setup DG as 10g, but it is really feasible. see Note 118409.1 please . Thanks a lot. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM, steve montgomerie <stmontgo@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > can the standby handle the job? why not swithover to the standby, then once > things are running smooth on the standby, drop the former primary, rebuild > on the original primary, add that as a standby and then switchover to our > shinny new config? > > >