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How to Cancel a Refresh Operation of a Materialized View (MV) When it is Scheduled via Job (Doc ID 806833.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Applies to:

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Refreshing a materialized view (MV) is controlled by either

  • a user of the RDBMS initiating a refresh
  • a commit
  • a job scheduled to run at pre-determined times


This article deals with the scenario where an MV is refreshed via a scheduled job, similar to the following definition:


Note that the NEXT phrase specifies that the MV should be refreshed automatically every day at 01:00 at night (1 AM).

If this job fails to complete, the job subsystem will reschedule the job to run again.

This may lead to a situation where the system becomes busy always attempting to complete a refresh, specifically if the MV is more complex than the one shown in this (simple) example.

The solution below explains how to stop a job from running and from being rescheduled over and over so that corrective action can be taken.

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