OK, let's try this again after resubscribing to the list. I'm in the process of setting up a logical standby databases that will only have a small portion of the tables in the primary database. (due to disk space constraints). Oracle 9.2.0.5 on Solaris 8 This is my general plan of attack. 1) create a new empty DB to act as the standby 2) create that tablesapces that will contain the objects we need. 3) run DDL to create empty copies of tables/indexes we want 4) reboot primary to turn on parameters needed for Dataguard 5) shutdown logical standby and restart it, identifying it as a logical standby 6) run the DBMS_LOGSTDBY.INSTANTIATE_TABLE routine for all tables we want I would appreciate comments on the feasiblity of this approach from anyone that has tried it before. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l