I've used skip rules to do various things with a logical standby. 1. change the path when adding a datafile to real-time apply doesn't stop 2. Ignore DDL and DML or an entire schema/tables. Other than a bit of lack of documentation on some of the more interesting things you can do (trial an error) it is working quite well for me (10.2.0.3 ) Bradd Piontek On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Niall Litchfield < niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > anyone have any experiences with this, in particular does it work as > advertised? And yes I'm aware that it is advertised with caveats. > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.orawin.info >