11gR2: materialized view logs changes
In this post we are going to discuss some 11gR2 changes to materialized view logs that are aimed at increasing the performance of the fast-refresh engine of materialized views (MVs), especially the on-commit variant.
The MV logs, in 10gr2, now comes in two flavours: the traditional (and still the default) timestamp-based one and the brand new commit SCN-based one; you choose the latter type by specifing the “WITH COMMIT SCN” clause at MV log creation time.…