1. A method of idling a specified database object during database replication comprising: receiving a request from a requestor to idle a specified database object during database replication from a source database to a target database, wherein operations applied to the source database are transferred as target operations and applied to the target database; terminating transference of the target operations for the specified database object from the source database to the target database; monitoring target operations for the specified database object on the target database; suspending replication of the specified database object in response to no target operations being applied to the specified database object on the target database, and notifying the requestor when the idling of the specified database object has completed.