April 2013

In this post, we are going to complete part 1 illustrating the (considerably more complex) general case of a fast refresh from a master inner table without a unique constraint on the joined column(s).

To recap, now the outer slice can be composed of more than one row, for example:

ooo inn1
ooo inn2

and hence, both the DEL and INS step must consider (and read) the whole outer slice even if only a subset of the inner rows have been modified.…

In this series of posts we will discuss how Oracle refreshes materialized views (MV) containing only OUTER joins, covering only 11.2.0.3. We will use the very same scenario (MV log configuration, DML type, etc) as in the inner join case, “just” turning the inner join into an outer join:

[sql light=”true”]
create materialized view test_mv
build immediate
refresh fast on demand
as
select test_outer.*,…