Instantiating the table should be faster than applying archive redologs from a massive update. When you instantiate a table, oracle uses datapump under the hood to synch up the table from primary to the standby site. I would suggest skipping the current update on your logical standby. Instantiate the table followed by UNSKIP. Hope this helps! --Qaiser On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:01 PM, K R <kp0773@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All, > > I have a situation. > > I created a physical standby database on 12/15 > > and I converted it to logical standby database on 12/20 > > there was a huge batch job on primary that ran on 12/22 which updated 2 > big tables of around 150G each .and the updates coming from that batch job is > still running since then. > > I have been always doing the instantiation which normally takes like 4 hour > but this time I am thinking if there is a quicker alternative to it .not sure > if incarnation will help here. > > So can I revert back to standby ( 12/19 ) and let the archive logs applied > till 12/23 it will be a lot quicker . The database is on 10.2.0.4 > > Thanks in advance. > > Kart -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l