Once the materialized view is created, we can run queries against the base table and use an Oracle hint to direct the SQL optimizer to fetch the average salary from the materialized view rather ...

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at what SQL views and materialized views are and when you should use each one. SQL Views. SQL views, also called “named queries” or “virtualized ...

Materialized views allow subsecond response times by precomputing aggregate information, and Oracle9i dynamically rewrites SQL queries to reference existing materialized views.