Fast Refresh using two non-primary key tables

Question

Hi,
I have a materialized view based on two tables with an outer join clause. Both the tables do not have a primary key so I had created materialized view log with row-id on each of them but still I am not able to bring out the fast refresh option for the materialized view. My question is can I have a fast refresh option for materialized view built from two tables without primary keys and having an outer join clause????. If possible please send me some sample scripts for quicker understanding.
Thanks and Regards,
Sudhakar

Answer 1

I was able to create a fast-refreshable MV, on tables without any PK. Unfortunately, I can't complete all the steps since my setup is a multi-master advanced replication (which ABSOLUTELY requires the tables to have PK's). Here are anyway the steps I took. Note that ORA102 is my (definition) master site, and MVDB is my MV site. The tables were created under user HR, and my master group is called "hr_repg". Here are my steps:
HR on ora102 >create table countries_no_pk as select * from countries;
Table created.
HR on ora102 >create table regions_no_pk as select * from regions;
Table created.
HR on ora102 >create materialized view log on countries_no_pk with rowid;
Materialized view log created.
HR on ora102 >create materialized view log on regions_no_pk with rowid;
Materialized view log created.
REPADMIN on ora102 >exec dbms_repcat.suspend_master_activity('hr_repg')
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Elapsed: 00:00:02.68
REPADMIN on ora102 >BEGIN
2 DBMS_REPCAT.CREATE_MASTER_REPOBJECT (
3 gname => 'hr_repg',
4 type => 'TABLE',
5 oname => 'countries_no_pk',
6 sname => 'hr',
7 use_existing_object => TRUE,
8 copy_rows => FALSE);
9 END;
10 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Elapsed: 00:00:05.19
REPADMIN on ora102 >set timing off
REPADMIN on ora102 >BEGIN
2 DBMS_REPCAT.CREATE_MASTER_REPOBJECT (
3 gname => 'hr_repg',
4 type => 'TABLE',
5 oname => 'regions_no_pk',
6 sname => 'hr',
7 use_existing_object => TRUE,
8 copy_rows => FALSE);
9 END;
10 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
(note that you ABSOLUTELY need the rowid's in your select statement for an MV with joins):
MVIEWADMIN on mvdb >CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW hr.complex_mv refresh fast as
2 select c.rowid "C_ROW_ID", r.rowid "R_ROW_ID", c.COUNTRY_ID, c.COUNTRY_NAME,
3 c.REGION_ID, r.REGION_NAME from hr.regions_no_pk@ora102 r, hr.countries_no_pk@ora102 c
4 where c.region_id = r.region_id (+);
Materialized view created.
MVIEWADMIN on mvdb >BEGIN
2 DBMS_REPCAT.CREATE_MVIEW_REPOBJECT (
3 gname => 'hr_repg',
4 sname => 'hr',
5 oname => 'complex_mv',
6 type => 'SNAPSHOT',
7 min_communication => TRUE);
8 END;
9 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
REPADMIN on ora102 >BEGIN
2 DBMS_REPCAT.GENERATE_REPLICATION_SUPPORT (
3 sname => 'hr',
4 oname => 'countries_no_pk',
5 type => 'TABLE',
6 min_communication => TRUE);
7 END;
8 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
(wait when the entries in DBA_REPCATLOG is empty)
REPADMIN on ora102 >exec dbms_repcat.resume_master_activity('hr_repg')
Hope that can help you. If that doesn't work, tell us where it bombs.
Daniel