Folks, Are there any restrictings/special considerations on running AQs in RAC? Per the AQ developer's guide, Advanced Queuing in the Oracle Real Application Clusters Environment Oracle Real Application Clusters can be used to ensure highly available access to queue data. The tail and the head of a queue can be extreme hot spots. Since Oracle Real Application Clusters may not scale well in the presence of hot spots, limit normal access to a queue from one instance only. If an instance failure occurs, messages managed by the failed instance can be processed immediately by one of the surviving instances. Thanks Amir