If you run a query on master site, you will find that mview refresh session will run query select ... from mlog$ wheer snaptime$$ > :1 :1 -> Bind contains the date.. I think this bind will remain same for mviews in refresh group.. -Amit On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > According to Oracle, materialized views in a refresh group are guaranteed > to be transactionally consistent when they are refreshed. This not only > means that there's no commit in the middle of a refresh group's refresh, but > also means that the source data seen by the first refreshed MV is not more > not less than the data the last refreshed MV sees, similar to what > consistent=y for exp or flashback_time|scn for expdp does when they export > more than one table. That is, > > Suppose we have 2 MVs in a refresh group. They refresh from two tables > rmtT1 and rmtT2 on remote DB, each for each MV (rmtT1 -> MV1, rmtT2 -> MV2). > At time t1, MV1 starts to refresh from rmtT1. At time t2, MV1 finishes and > MV2 starts to refresh from rmtT2. If between t1 and t2, rmtT2 has new rows > inserted. At t2, MV2's refresh will ignore those new rows in rmtT2. > > How does Oracle make sure at t2, MV2 only reads rows as existed in rmtT2 at > the time of t1? We know exp consistent=y simply runs "set transaction read > only" at the beginning of the exp session, and expdp flashback_xxx probably > uses flashback query (select ... as of). What does refresh group use? I > enabled SQL trace in the source database (master site, where rmtT1 and rmtT2 > are), but there's no special SQL seen during the period, no "set transaction > read only", no "select ... as of". Has anybody studied this? My test is done > in Oracle 10.2.0.4. > > If interested, please view the SQL trace of the session on the source DB at > http://yong321.freeshell.org/oranotes/RefreshGroup.txt > Note dbms_refresh.refresh makes calls to DBMS_SNAPSHOT_UTL.VERIFY_LOG and > DBMS_SNAPSHOT_UTL.WRAP_UP, which is not seen in dbms_mview.refresh (an > individual mview's refresh). Maybe those two procedures make the difference? > > Yong Huang > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >