Materialized Views with Query Rewrite is not getting re-written

Question

I have tried everything that has been mentioned in all the forums here and on metalink to fix this issue, has any smart APEX user found a solution?
The issue is the MV with Query rewrite capability is not being re-written.
Things I have tried
1) give all Query Rewrite privileges to all 3 APEx schemas and parsing schema;
2) check trace files with tkprof;
3) dynamically printed explain plan from v$_SQL on the page while executing the query;
4) to test in a different environment i created an another DAD using the pl/sql webtool kit and tried the same thing and rewrite works like a charm...
whats the issue here...why are apex schemas not re-writing the queries????
appreciate any help...thanks

Answer 1

Jes, per your request
--create materialized view
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW "RPLANSWEB"."MV_FCG_ALL_SUMMARY_TAB"
ORGANIZATION HEAP PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 81920 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "RPLANSWEB"
BUILD IMMEDIATE
USING INDEX
REFRESH FORCE ON DEMAND
USING DEFAULT LOCAL ROLLBACK SEGMENT
ENABLE QUERY REWRITE
AS SELECT fcg, year, fcg_desc,
fac, efr, fac_desc, efr_desc,
ums_round, fcg_allow_drillable allow_drillable,
MAX(category_code_um1) category_code_um1,
SUM(perm_asset) perm_asset,
SUM(temp_asset) temp_asset,
SUM(semi_asset) semi_asset,
SUM(lease_asset) lease_asset,
SUM(planned_constr) planned_constr,
SUM(all_perm_asset) all_perm_asset,
SUM(total_asset) total_asset,
SUM(allow) allow, SUM(rqmt) rqmt,
SUM(perm_planned_constr) perm_planned_constr,
SUM(perm_planned_constr_rqmt_delta) perm_planned_constr_rqmt_delta,
ROUND(DECODE(SUM(rqmt), 0, 0, SUM(all_perm_asset)/SUM(rqmt)*100)) perm_rqmt_pctsat,
ROUND(DECODE(SUM(allow), 0, 0, SUM(all_perm_asset)/SUM(allow)*100)) perm_allw_pctsat,
ROUND(DECODE(SUM(rqmt), 0, 0, SUM(total_asset)/SUM(rqmt)*100)) total_rqmt_pctsat,
ROUND(DECODE(SUM(allow), 0, 0, SUM(total_asset)/SUM(allow)*100)) total_allw_pctsat,
ROUND(DECODE(SUM(all_perm_asset), 0, 0, SUM(rqmt)/SUM(all_perm_asset)*100)) perm_rqmt_pctutl,
ROUND(DECODE(SUM(all_perm_asset), 0, 0, SUM(allow)/SUM(all_perm_asset)*100)) perm_allw_pctutl,
ROUND(DECODE(SUM(total_asset), 0, 0, SUM(rqmt)/SUM(total_asset)*100)) total_rqmt_pctutl,
ROUND(DECODE(SUM(total_asset), 0, 0, SUM(allow)/SUM(total_asset)*100)) total_allw_pctutl,
SUM(coarse_screen_asset) coarse_screen_asset,
SUM(total_excess) total_excess,
SUM(total_deficit) total_deficit,
SUM(perm_excess) perm_excess,
SUM(perm_deficit) perm_deficit,
SUM(all_perm_excess) all_perm_excess,
SUM(all_perm_deficit) all_perm_deficit,
SUM(temp_excess) temp_excess,
SUM(satisfy_rqmt) satisfy_rqmt
FROM summary_tab_dd
GROUP BY fcg, year, fcg_desc,
fac, efr, fac_desc, efr_desc,
ums_round, fcg_allow_drillable;
sql plus> log in as parsing schema user (not APEX_PUBLIC_USER)
sql plus> SELECT fcg, year, fcg_desc,
SUM(perm_asset) perm_asset,
SUM(perm_excess) perm_excess,
SUM(perm_deficit) perm_deficit,
SUM(all_perm_excess) all_perm_excess,
SUM(all_perm_deficit) all_perm_deficit,
SUM(temp_excess) temp_excess,
SUM(satisfy_rqmt) satisfy_rqmt
FROM summary_tab_dd
where year=2007
GROUP BY fcg, year, fcg_desc;
--execution plan
SELECT STATEMENT     ALL_ROWS     12     291     17460                         
HASH(GROUP BY)          12     291     17460                         
MAT_VIEW REWRITE ACCESS(FULL) RPLANSWEB.MV_FCG_ALL_SUMMARY_TAB     ANALYZED     11     291     17460                         "MV_FCG_ALL_SUMMARY_TAB"."YEAR"=2007
--execution plan from sql workshop (application express)
SELECT STATEMENT 42,341 55 3,882 1,990,027
HASH GROUP BY 42,341 55 3,882 1,990,027
TABLE ACCESS FULL SUMMARY_TAB_DD 109,158 47 3,329 5,130,426 "YEAR" = 2007
--execution plan from an APEX page (displayed from v$sql and V$SQL_PLAN)
OPERATION: SELECT STATEMENT OPTIONS: OBJECT_NAME: OBJECT_ALIAS: OBJECT_TYPE: OPTIMIZER: ALL_ROWS SEARCH_COLUMNS: 0 COST: 4600 CARDINALITY: BYTES: CPU_COST: IO_COST: ACCESS_PREDICATES: FILTER_PREDICATES: PROJECTION:
OPERATION: HASH OPTIONS: GROUP BY OBJECT_NAME: OBJECT_ALIAS: OBJECT_TYPE: OPTIMIZER: SEARCH_COLUMNS: 0 COST: 4600 CARDINALITY: 109158 BYTES: 8732640 CPU_COST: 549150132 IO_COST: 4569 ACCESS_PREDICATES: FILTER_PREDICATES: PROJECTION: "FCG"[VARCHAR2,6], "FCG_DESC"[VARCHAR2,15], SUM("PERM_DEFICIT")[22], SUM("PERM_EXCESS")[22], SUM("SATISFY_RQMT")[22], SUM("TEMP_EXCESS")[22], SUM("ALL_PERM_EXCESS")[22], SUM("ALL_PERM_DEFICIT")[22], SUM("PERM_ASSET")[22]
OPERATION: TABLE ACCESS OPTIONS: FULL OBJECT_NAME: SUMMARY_TAB_DD OBJECT_ALIAS: SUMMARY_TAB_DD@SEL$1 OBJECT_TYPE: TABLE OPTIMIZER: SEARCH_COLUMNS: 0 COST: 3329
as you can see while executing the script in sql developer the optimizer is finding the relevant materialized view, not in the case of APEX's SQL Workshop or Page.
appreciate your time