Re: Refresh option for Materialized view , want to use it during refresh

[Arup Nanda]

Siddharth, I will offer a slightly out-of-the-box solution. Please read it through till the end to determine its applicability in your case. It seems yours refresh interval is once a day and you don't mind stale data for a max of 24 hours. You also refresh is complete, not incremental. So, I would suggest the follwoing approach. (1) Create a table first CREATE TABLE CT_PRODUCTID_VW TABLESPACE .... NOLOGGING AS SELECT ..... (2) When you are ready to "refresh", drop the MV DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW CT_PRODUCTID_VW; (3) Create the MV with the PREBUILT TABLE option. CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW CT_PRODUCTID_VW BUILD IMMEDIATE REFRESH START WITH SYSDATE NEXT (SYSDATE + 1) ON PREBUILT TABLE AS SELECT     msi.segment1                productid,     .... Your MV is not accessible between STEP 2 and STEP3, which is really a dictionary update and takes about a second or so. So the "outage" is really 1 second, not 1/2 hr. A few explanations are in order here. (1) Creating an MV on a Prebuilt Table does not consume more space. The segment that used to be a table simply becomes an MV. (2) When you drop the MV, the MV is gone, but the table remains instact. (3) The table can be create by any means - export/import, SQL*Loader, INSERT APPEND, etc. (4) IT places less strain on the system comapred to the MV refresh option, simply because the MV refresh truncates the segment and then builds it. I presented a paper to the same effect at IOUG Live 2003. You can download a modified version of the same from my website www.proligence.com/downlaods.html, titled "Painless Master Table Alter" from the Presentations Section. HTH. Arup Nanda ----- Original Message ----- From: Siddharth Haldankar To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:59 AM Subject: Refresh option for Materialized view , want to use it during refresh Hi Gurus, I have a materialized view, which is based on Oracle Apps tables and on remote database. The view refresh takes around ½ hour, during this time period I cannot see any records in the materialized view and therefore my application faces errors. The following is the view definition CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW CT_PRODUCTID_VW BUILD IMMEDIATE REFRESH START WITH SYSDATE NEXT (SYSDATE + 1) AS SELECT     msi.segment1                productid,               msi.description             description,     msi.inventory_item_id       inventory_item_id,     mc.segment1                 product_family,     mc.segment2                 product_type FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED]      mcs,      [EMAIL PROTECTED]         mc,      [EMAIL PROTECTED]    mic,      [EMAIL PROTECTED]       msi where 1=1 and   mc.structure_id       =  50112 and   mc.segment3          != 'SPARE' and   mc.global_name        = 'US' and   mc.enabled_flag       = 'Y' and   mcs.global_name       = mc.global_name and   mcs.category_set_name = 'PROD GROUP' and   mic.category_set_id   = mcs.category_set_id and   mic.category_id       = mc.category_id and   mic.global_name       = mc.global_name and   mic.organization_id   = 1 and   mic.inventory_item_id = msi.inventory_item_id and   msi.organization_id   = mic.organization_id and   msi.global_name       = mc.global_name AND   msi.auto_created_config_flag = 'N' AND   msi.item_type         IN ('ATO MODEL','CONFIG SPARE','CONFIG SUB','FEATURE PACK','PRODUCT LIST>$0','PTO MODEL','SPARE') and   msi.inventory_item_status_code IN ('ENABLE-MAJ','ENABLE-NON','ENABLE-OPT','NONORD') Please note that the tables referenced are remote tables and Oracle Apps tables and not logging on it is possible. Please suggest an appropriate refresh mechanism to see the records even during refresh period. Thanks in advance. With Warm Regards Siddharth Haldankar Zensar Technologies Ltd. Cisco Systems Inc. (Offshore Development Center) #  : 091 020 4128394 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]