1. My itinerary was unambitious compared with those of some of my fellow standbys.

2. You might relegate onions to the list of old-fashioned kitchen standbys, as you can slice and dice them into everything from home fries and soups to omelets and casseroles.

3. To reduce the load on your primary system, or to reduce the bandwidth requirements imposed when your standbys are separated from the primary database through a Wide Area Network (WAN), you can implement Cascaded destinations, whereby a standby database receives its redo data from another standby database, instead of directly from the primary database.