Hi > I did find the table mlog$_<table_name>. I assume this > gets created when the mv log is created. Yes.=20 > When I delete the mv log then I assume all objects that > depend on the mv log have to be complete refreshed. Yes, you should perform a complete refresh for all dependent = materialized views. > There could be objects in other databases that depend on it=20 > and I do not know how to find those. What would happen if I > delete the mv log and recreate it and after that one of the > dependent objects tries to do a refresh. Will it get an error > or will it just changes after the re-creation. It depends on the refresh type: a) COMPLETE --> don't care (such MV are not really dependent from the MV = log) b) FAST --> you get an error c) FORCE --> no valid MV log is found, therefore complete refresh is = automatically performed HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l