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Materialized Views
Materialized views can be created to:
Replicate data to remote databases
Cache expensive queries in data warehouse
environments
A materialized view is a copy of a table or query
result set from a single point in time.
You can select data from a materialized view as
you would from a table or view.
The data in a materialized view can be
synchronized with the source tables either
manually or automatically at scheduled intervals.
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Refreshing Materialized Views
To keep a materialized view up to date, it needs to
be refreshed.





There are three different ways to refresh a
materialized view:
Complete
Fast
Force
Pittsburgh Detroit
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Materialized View Logs
Materialized view logs are used to support fast
refresh for different types of materialized views.
Materialized
views which
cannot fast
refresh are
called
complex.
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Primary Key Materialized Views
Uses the primary key of the source table to
identify changed rows
Default type of materialized view
Requires an enabled primary key constraint on the
source table
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW job_mv
REFRESH FAST
START WITH sysdate NEXT sysdate + 1
WITH PRIMARY KEY
AS SELECT * FROM jobs@detroit;
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Creating Materialized Views
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Updatable Materialized Views
Updatable materialized views allow changes made at
both the source site and the materialized view site to
be synchronized:
Materialized view changes are pushed up to the
source site during refreshing.
Changes to the source site are pulled down from
source site during refreshing.
Detroit
Pull
Push
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Monitoring Materialized View Refresh
Check the Database page for alerts:





View materialized view details:
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Refresh Job Errors
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Monitoring Refresh Operations
SELECT owner, mview_name, last_refresh_date
FROM DBA_MVIEWS;

OWN MVIEW_NAME LAST_REFRESH_DATE
--- ---------------------- -----------------
SH CAL_MONTH_SALES_MV 21-JAN-2004 12:48
HR SITE1_JOBS 07-FEB-2004 07:53
SELECT job, what, next_date, broken, failures
FROM DBA_JOBS WHERE schema_user='HR';

JOB WHAT
---- ----------------------------------------
NEXT_DATE BROKEN FAILURES
--------- -------- ----------
23 dbms_refresh.refresh('"HR"."SITE1_JOBS"');
07-FEB-04 N 1
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Additional Distributed Data Technologies
Oracle Change Data Capture
Oracle Advanced Queuing
Oracle Streams
Gateway products and Generic Connectivity
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned about:
Using materialized views to access remote data
using local queries
Configuring fast refresh for a materialized view