Hi all,

> I've begun taking the liberty of expecting poster to do
> some of their own RTFM.

Jared, are you sure this is a good idea ;-)
 
> Have you built large refresh groups?  Until I here someone's
> experiences on the matter that state otherwise, I would still 
> think it feasible.

We have about 77 tables in 7 refresh groups being replicated on an ongoing
basis from a heavy OLTP system (Hint: An ERP application from our favorite
vendor). DDL is rarely allowed on these tables, but we still have issues.
When one group falls behind and there is heavier-than-usual DML on these
snapshotted table, we frequently get ORA-0155 errors as the span of refresh
becomes longer and longer. Comes a point when we have to selectively switch
from FAST to COMPLETE for a few of the larger tables. And then we need to
build up the privs and all other stuff around these changes on the target
database... Very DBA intensive to say the least. The situation has improved
since the time I started as we sorted out perf and rollback issues  at the
source. 
 
> ( If on version 8+, trigger execution should not be such
> a big deal, as it's part of the kernel )

Yep - this is still on 7.3, and I haven't seen the equivalent in 8. The DBA
management issues still remain though...
 
> As for snapshots breaking, I'm again assuming that
> the normal causes of this will be monitored and dealt
> with.  Source server down, space issues, etc, are all
> things that should be monitored anyway.

Repairing lots of broken snapshots all at the same time is akin to trying to
rein in a runaway train sometimes. (or is that me blowing off some steam? :)
 
> I dunno, maybe I'm expecting too much, but I've been
> surprised at the non-intrusiveness of running several 
> snapshots on a busy and poorly written system.

Lucky you!

John
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