You may try refreshing using atomic_refresh: exec dbms_mview.refresh('TEST_MV',method => 'C', atomic_refresh=>false); This will do truncate/insert (as it was in 9i) instead of delete/insert. But be careful; there will be a point when you have no data in the MV (after the truncate and before the end of insert) Regards, Yavor Ivanov From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan-Hendrik.Boll@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:06 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: DBMS_REFRESH and Redo-Logging Hi folks, i've got a mv created with nologging-clause on 10204. This view is regularly refreshed completly using dbms_refresh.refresh. During the refresh a plenty of archive-logs are generated, flooding our archive-destination. As result oracle deactivates the full destionation forcing the database to halt. Error: ARCH: Archival stopped, error occurred. Will continue retrying ORACLE Instance dada - Archival Error ORA-16014: log 1 sequence# 49531 not archived, no available destinations After that the archiver is pausing for 2 or 3 minutes. As i know that there is no way to prevent redo-log generation, do you know a workaround for such a scenario? Expect increasing file-systemspace and deactivating archivelog mode. :-) And secondly: how am i able to prevent oracle from waiting for the archiver. Is there any way to reenable the deacitvated archive_destionations? regards, jan