While doing so, you might also include the topic of query re-write, if in a data warehouse environment. In other words, to the statement "Querying the materialized view has nothing to do with the refresh", I would add: if a materialized view is stale, it won't be used for query re-write. (unless you use something like "QUERY_REWRITE_INTEGRITY=stale_tolerated" -- there's a lot more info in the Data Warehousing Guide). -Mark Bole Denham Eva wrote: > It appears my understanding of these views is far more incorrect than I > expected. > It appears I will have to do some serious RTFMing.=20 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yasin Baskan [mailto:yasbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 > Sent: 01 June 2005 02:34 PM > To: Denham Eva; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Materialized Views query without refresh? > > > > Am i getting it wrong? Querying the materialized view has nothing to do > with the refresh. Querying does not refresh materialized views. > Force is one of the refresh methods available. It tries to do a fast > refresh if possible, complete refresh otherwise when you want to refresh > the materialized view (if you created it as to be refreshed on demand it > will be refreshed when you want, if you created it as to be refreshed on > commit it will be refreshed on commits to the master table.) > [...] -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l