The table won't move while the database is open read-only. But it will move when you put the standby back in recovery mode, and the appropriate archivelogs are applied. --Terry Physical standby open in read only 9.2.0.5 AIX When trying to move a table to a new tablespace in the source db, the standby appears to not move the table to the new tablespace. Is this expected behavior? Since the db is in read-only mode, I obviously cannot move the table there. I need to get objects to a new tablespace (long story, but old mount points need to go away and this looks like the way to do this with least downtime for most objects) Any ideas? -- Stephen Andert