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MaterializedViews
Views
ViewsvsMaterializedViews
vs

Materialized
Likeitspredecessortheview,materializedviewsallowyoutostorethe
Views

definitionofaqueryinthedatabase.

REFRESH
COMPLETE

Materialized
View
Logs

Table

REFRESH
FAST

Purging
Materialized

View
Logs

select*fromT;

KEYVAL

1a
2b
EXPLAIN_MVIEW
3c
4
REFRESH

FORCE

REFRESH
FAST
Categories

customize
CafePress

View

MaterializedView

createviewv
as
select*
fromt;

creatematerializedviewmv
as
select*
fromt;

select*fromV;

select*fromMV;

KEYVAL

1a
2b
3c
4

KEYVAL

1a
2b
3c
4

NEVER
REFRESH
ON
DEMAND

Unlikeviews,however,materializedviewsalsostoretheresultsofthe
queryinthedatabase.Inthefollowingqueriesnotehowtherowid'sfor
ON

COMMIT thetableandtheviewareidentical,indicatingtheviewreturnstheexact
samedatastoredinthetable.Therowidsofthematerializedview,onthe
Constraints
otherhand,differfromthoseofthetable.Thisindicatesthematerialized
Indexes
viewisreturningaphysicallyseparatecopyofthetabledata.

ENABLE
QUERY
REWRITE

Query
Rewrite
Restrictions
and
Capabilities

Join
Queries

Aggregate
Queries

Nested
Materialized
Views

View

MaterializedView

selectrowid
fromT
orderbyrowid;

selectrowid
fromV
orderbyrowid;

selectrowid
fromMV
orderbyrowid;

ROWID

AAAgY9AAEAAAAVfAAA
AAAgY9AAEAAAAVfAAB
AAAgY9AAEAAAAVfAAC
AAAgY9AAEAAAAVfAAD

ROWID

AAAgY9AAEAAAAVfAAA
AAAgY9AAEAAAAVfAAB
AAAgY9AAEAAAAVfAAC
AAAgY9AAEAAAAVfAAD

ROWID

AAAgZFAAEAAADyEAAA
AAAgZFAAEAAADyEAAB
AAAgZFAAEAAADyEAAC
AAAgZFAAEAAADyEAAD

More
Info

Setup
Cleanup
<Previous

Table

Thedifferencebetweenviewsandmaterializedviewsbecomeseven
moreevidentthanthiswhentabledataisupdated.

Next>
Table

ReadUsingSQLSnippets
beforeusinganyofthissite's
samplecodeortechniqueson
yourownsystems.

View

MaterializedView

updatetsetval=upper(val);

select*fromT;

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select*fromV;

select*fromMV;

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KEYVAL

1A
2B
3C
4

KEYVAL

1A
2B
3C
4

KEYVAL

1a
2b
3c
4

Notehow,aftertheupdate,theviewdatamatchesthetabledatabutthe
materializedviewdatadoesnot.Datainmaterializedviewsmustbe
refreshedtokeepitsynchronizedwithitsbasetable.Refreshingcan
eitherbedonemanually,asbelow,orautomaticallybyOracleinsome
cases.
Table

View

MaterializedView

executedbms_mview.refresh('MV');

select*fromT;

select*fromV;

select*fromMV;

KEYVAL

1A
2B
3C
4

KEYVAL

1A
2B
3C
4

KEYVAL

1A
2B
3C
4

Nowthatthematerializedviewhasbeenrefresheditsdatamatchesthat
ofitsbasetable.
Cleanup
dropmaterializedviewmv;
dropviewv;
updatetsetval=lower(val);
commit;

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