what is materialised view? why we use it in data warehousing?

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what is materialised view? why we use it in data warehousing?..

Answer / c.venkataramana gupta

->Meterialized view is DBA object
-> to create meterializd view need dba perimission(previlege)
->it holds the static data (changes on table will not reflected on view)
-> at time of creating the data is stored in meterialized view, when ever another new record is not restricted.
-> no dml operations allowed

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what is materialised view? why we use it in data warehousing?..

Answer / suman palisetty

Materialized Views are objects which have information that has been aggregated and summarized from source tables.

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what is materialised view? why we use it in data warehousing?..

Answer / gopal

MT views is a table which occupies space when ever we update it doesn't update in parent table we need to write a command to refersh the data in to parent table
Mainly used for Pre-aggregated Calculations....

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what is materialised view? why we use it in data warehousing?..

Answer / ram

Materialised view will stores the results of sql in the tables form in the database. materialised view contains data physically.view doesn't contain data physically.materialised view will be updated with batch upted know as refreshes.

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what is materialised view? why we use it in data warehousing?..

Answer / manoj

Materialized view contains special cache to store the data
and structure of the table.

it improves the perrformance becuase when we write the
query every time data is not feched from the base table
i.e. we will use in Datawarehouse.

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