Yes, there are mview logs, but they are freshly created when I do this experiment, and there has been no DML on the base tables when I do it as well. RF Robert G. Freeman Oracle Consultant/DBA/Author Principal Engineer/Team Manager The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Father of Five, Husband of One, Author of various geeky computer titles from Osborne/McGraw Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 11g New Features Now Available for Pre-sales on Amazon.com! BLOG: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com/ Sig V1.2 -----Original Message----- From: Ghassan Salem [mailto:salem.ghassan@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:24 AM To: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: MView... Fresh build is much faster than Complete refresh... Robert, do you have MV logs on the base tables?, the are cleaned up upon refresh, so if they are 'big', it may explain the result, also, how many indexes do you have on this MView? rgds On 8/22/07, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: So I have this materialized view. When I execute the create materialized view command, it takes 32.39 seconds to build. A complete refresh (exec dbms_mview.refresh('mview_name','C'); ) from the prompt this takes almost 3-4 times longer. Does anyone have any thoughts on why this might be so just right off hand. I've not run a 10046 on it yet, but I thought maybe there is something about MVIEW Full Refreshes that I'm just missing. RF Robert G. Freeman Oracle Consultant/DBA/Author Principal Engineer/Team Manager The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Father of Five, Husband of One, Author of various geeky computer titles from Osborne/McGraw Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 11g New Features Now Available for Pre-sales on Amazon.com! BLOG: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com/ Sig V1.2