I'm resurrecting this old thread just to put in a shameless note that I've written a paper how to search effectively in a normalized application. Jared rather briefly mentioned use of materialized views in appendix of his paper, but I've described how we used materialized views for normalized app and what problems we encountered. It can be found in http://www.gplivna.eu/papers_e.htm, the first article there.
Of course if somebody is eager enough to drop me any comments I'd be happy to receive them :)
Gints Plivna http://www.gplivna.eu
On 5/4/06, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think enough time has passed since Hotsos that I will just > put it on my website. Something to do this evening I guess, > not that there's a shortage of things to do. > >
'Normalize for Performance' can be found at jaredstill.com, under the 'Articles' heading.
Included PowerPoint, Word doc, scripts used during the presentation, as well as a DMP file to load the test schema.
On some of the tests with query rewrite on Materialized Views, your mileage may vary between versions of Oracle.
What didn't work on 10.2.0.1, does work on 10.2.0.4(?), depending on how the SQL is written.
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