Re: MView... Fresh build is much faster than Complete refresh...

2007/8/22, Kerber, Andrew W. <Andrew.Kerber_at_umb.com>:
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> I have spent a lot of time looking at materialized views, and (apologies to
> Oracle), in my experience they are really only useful if you can/have to do
> incremental refreshes. A create table as select is much faster if you do a
> complete refresh.

I'd say that truncate + insert /*+ append */ as it was in 9i and can be achieved also in 10g is good enough :) And there is one big advantage - query rewrite ...

Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu

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