I forgot to provide the specifics. Primary db is in a 2 node cluster Solaris 10 Rac, asm,rbdms - 11.2.0.3 Logical standby (no rac) Solaris 10 asm, rdbms - 11.2.0.3 thanks Hello, We've created a logical standby, and discovered issues with tables that have function-based indexes. Its appear the LSB does not use them. This caused the LSB to lag far behind the primary database. This particular DB has over a thousand tables with FBIs. To resolve this, we're adding unique indexes to the offending tables that require them. To me, this is not an ideal solution, especially as table volumes grow. I'm considering implementing active dataguard, and use this as our reporting DB. I hope to be able to try this in a week or so. Hasn't anyone used active dg to resolve the FBI issue ? Does anyone have any other solutions ? Your feedback is appreciated. thanks ed lewis -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l