There is a nice article by Alejandro Vargas, that describes step by step procedure to open Standby for RW to test your application and than convert it back to standby: http://blogs.oracle.com/AlejandroVargas/gems/PhysicalStandbyActivatedRead.pdf Best regards, Edgar Chupit callto://edgar.chupit On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Howard Latham<howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes we have a licence - are you saying just connect to the standby and do > ALTER DATABASE OPEN READ WRITE? > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l