>Dear list,
>
>Have any of you every experienced MV's not
>refreshing
>for no particular reason?
>
>We have been using some simple MV's for several
>months
>with no problem. Now after upgrading our app and
>database,
>there seem to be problems.
>
>Servers:
>
>Master: Win2k SP2 Oracle 8.1.7.4.1
>
>Slave: NT 4 SP6 Oracle 8.1.7.4.1
>
>These databases were previously 8.1.6. The master
>database
>now has a UTF8 character set, and all tables have
>NVARCHAR2
>columns.
>
>These are being converted in the MV using:
> translate("COLUMN_NAME" using char_cs)
>COLUMN_NAME
>when creating the MV.
>
>There are no errors, no trace files. Data is
>updated on the master
>node and never appears in the slave.
>
>The data continues to persist in the MLOG$ tables.
>I've verified there
>is only a single MV against each MV LOG, so the
>data in MLOG$ should
>be truncated after a refresh, but the fact that it
>isn't makes it fairly
>obvious that the refresh is not working properly.
>
>I have a serverity 1 TAR open now with Oracle, but
>so far all that's
>been accomplished with the TAR is me repeating
>everything I
>included initially.
>
>Any advice appreciated, as it's rather important to
>get this working again.
>
>Jared
>
Jared,
What about the refresh jobs ? Does DBA_JOBS show failures ? If so, can you wrap the
dbms_refresh call into something to catch the error ? (if you feel lazy I think that
there is code to this effect on the Oriole site in one of the 'Aunt Augusta' papers).
Regards,
Stephane Faroult
Oriole
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