2007/1/19, Smith, Steven K - MSHA <Smith.Steven@xxxxxxx>:
We set up 2 identical materialized views - *_MVW_1 and *_MVW_2 Refresh them on an alternating schedule. As part of the refresh jobs, recreate a synonym pointing to the newly refreshed view as the last step and use that synonym to reference the materialized view.
Except for the synonym part we did exactly the same solution for our searching. I have even written an article explaining how we did that in http://www.gplivna.eu/papers/mat_views_search.htm Gints Plivna http://www.gplivna.eu -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l