ORA-12034: materialized view log younger than last refresh
Posted by FatDBA on January 7, 2022
Recently I have encountered an issue where frequent errors were captured in the alert log file about the on demand materialized view refresh failure. The main error reported was ORA-12034: materialized view log on “DIXDROID”.”TEST_STATS” younger than last refresh.
On demand
MV DIXDROID.PRAS_ID_MV was not refreshed successfully.
Number of MV refresh failures: 1.
Encountered error ORA-12034.
kkzifr3g: Encountered error ORA-12034.
2022-01-06T11:14:49.885045+02:00
Errors in file /monkeydb/can/ontadb/rdbms/ontadb/ONTADB/trace/ONTADB_j000_5663.trc:
ORA-12012: error on auto execute of job 1
ORA-12034: materialized view log on "DIXDROID"."TEST_STATS" younger than last refresh
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT_KKXRCA", line 2960
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT_KKXRCA", line 2378
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT_KKXRCA", line 85
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT_KKXRCA", line 245
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT_KKXRCA", line 2360
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT_KKXRCA", line 2916
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT_KKXRCA", line 3199
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT_KKXRCA", line 3255
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT", line 41
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_IREFRESH", line 703
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_REFRESH", line 214
ORA-06512: at line 1
It was pointing to the Materialized View Log, about materialized view logs, they are created for a master table, and a materialized view has been created with the REFRESH FAST option, the following timestamps will be used when validating log age.
About potential causes, there could be many i.e.
- Definition of the master table is altered.
- The last refresh was failed for some reasons.
- Altering the master table so that changes don’t go to the materialized view log i.e. truncate, alter partitions drop or truncate
- Master table reorganization or when when issuing an MV log purge
Now about the solution, in our case this issue happens when a complete refresh is required before the next fast refresh. So I did the COMPLETE refresh for the MV in question and did the FAST refresh soon after that and that has fixed the issue.
SQL*Plus: Release 12.2.0.1.0 Production on Thu Jan 6 11:14:07 2022
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Enter user-name: / as sysdba
Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
SQL>
-- Following command will perform first time COMPLETE refresh on the materialized views
SQL> execute dbms_snapshot.refresh ('DIXDROID.PRAS_ID_MV', 'C');
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
-- After this first time COMPLETE refresh, the successive FAST refresh will be successful.
SQL> execute dbms_snapshot.refresh ('DIXDROID.PRAS_ID_MV', 'F');
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
Hope It Helped!
Prashant Dixit
Tales From A Lazy Fat DBA 
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