On 7 Dec 2004 10:40:16 -0000, Prem Khanna J <premj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Friends, > I would like to know the list of "NOT TO DO" on > Primary database in Standby database environment. not appropriate for 817, but I suspect that FLASHBACK functionality might be an interesting experiment on a standby database. the 'UNRECOVERABLE' keyword and INSERT /*+APPEND */ would be good key words to avoid. To be honest though I think that any production database that *doesn't* have FORCE LOGGING run on it needs to carefully justify that decision. I wonder if renaming the database and moving the archivelog destinations are good ways to break the standby as well. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l