How to create Materialized View and Automatic Refresh Scheduler in Oracle 11gR2

Before I post this article, I was troubled by MV configuration to refresh it manually. My MV is too complicated to tell it here, so I'll create it more simple.

Create a materialized view first, here is my simple MV :

 CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW "some_schema"."MV_TEST_BRO" ("some_field", "some_field", "some_field")  
 ORGANIZATION HEAP PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 0 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS NOLOGGING  
 STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645  
 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)  
 TABLESPACE "some_tablespace"   
 BUILD IMMEDIATE  
 USING INDEX   
 REFRESH COMPLETE ON DEMAND  
 USING DEFAULT LOCAL ROLLBACK SEGMENT  
 USING ENFORCED CONSTRAINTS DISABLE QUERY REWRITE  
 AS SELECT * FROM some_table;  

You can create it using REFRESH COMPLETE ON COMMIT or using FAST/FORCE mode. For detailed information please read this. After you update one of your table master you will get status NEED_COMPILE if you run this query :

 SELECT MVIEW_NAME, STALENESS, LAST_REFRESH_TYPE, COMPILE_STATE FROM USER_MVIEWS ORDER BY MVIEW_NAME;  

After that I created a Schedules using DBMS_SCHEDULER like below this :

 BEGIN  
      sys.dbms_scheduler.create_schedule(  
      repeat_interval => 'FREQ=MINUTELY',  
      start_date => to_timestamp_tz('2015-06-09 01:41:55 Asia/Jakarta', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS TZR'),  
      comments => 'Interval refresh 1 menit',  
      schedule_name => '"SOME_SCHEMA"."REFRESH_MV"');  
 END;  

MV and The Schedules has been created and now we create a DBMS_REFRESH to refresh every MV we have. This is My PL/SQL :

 BEGIN  
   DBMS_REFRESH.make(  
        name         => 'some_schema.MINUTE_REFRESH',  
        list         => '',  
        next_date      => SYSDATE,  
        interval       => '/*1:Mins*/ SYSDATE + 1/(60*24)',  
        implicit_destroy   => FALSE,  
        lax         => FALSE,  
        job         => 0,  
        rollback_seg     => NULL,  
        push_deferred_rpc  => TRUE,  
        refresh_after_errors => TRUE,  
        purge_option     => NULL,  
        parallelism     => 4,  
        heap_size      => NULL);  
   END;  
   BEGIN  
   DBMS_REFRESH.add(  
        name => 'some_schema.MINUTE_REFRESH',  
        list => 'some_schema.MV_TEST_BRO',  
        lax => TRUE);  
   END;  

For Automatic Refresh, we need Job Scheduler to do that so we create it one, using this PL/SQL below :

 BEGIN  
 sys.dbms_scheduler.create_job(  
 job_name => '"SOME_SCHEMA"."REFRESH_MV"',  
 job_type => 'PLSQL_BLOCK',  
 job_action => 'DECLARE  
   mv_name USER_MVIEWS.MVIEW_NAME%type;  
   mv_status USER_MVIEWS.STALENESS%type;  
   mv_last USER_MVIEWS.LAST_REFRESH_TYPE%type;  
   mv_state USER_MVIEWS.COMPILE_STATE%type;  
   CURSOR check_mv  
   IS SELECT MVIEW_NAME, STALENESS, LAST_REFRESH_TYPE, COMPILE_STATE FROM USER_MVIEWS WHERE MVIEW_NAME = ''MV_TEST_BRO'' ORDER BY MVIEW_NAME;  
   BEGIN  
     OPEN check_mv;  
     LOOP  
       FETCH check_mv INTO mv_name, mv_status, mv_last, mv_state;  
       IF mv_status != ''FRESH'' THEN  
         DBMS_REFRESH.REFRESH(name => ''SOME_SCHEMA.MINUTE_REFRESH'');  
       ELSE  
         EXIT;  
       END IF;  
       EXIT WHEN check_mv%NOTFOUND;  
     END LOOP;  
   CLOSE check_mv;  
 END;',  
 schedule_name => '"SOME_SCHEMA"."REFRESH_MV"',  
 job_class => '"DEFAULT_JOB_CLASS"',  
 comments => 'Refresh MV every 1 Minutes',  
 auto_drop => FALSE,  
 enabled => FALSE);  
 sys.dbms_scheduler.set_attribute( name => '"SOME_SCHEMA"."REFRESH_MV"', attribute => 'raise_events', value => dbms_scheduler.job_failed);  
 sys.dbms_scheduler.set_attribute( name => '"SOME_SCHEMA"."REFRESH_MV"', attribute => 'logging_level', value => DBMS_SCHEDULER.LOGGING_FAILED_RUNS);  
 sys.dbms_scheduler.set_attribute( name => '"SOME_SCHEMA"."REFRESH_MV"', attribute => 'restartable', value => TRUE);  
 sys.dbms_scheduler.enable( '"SOME_SCHEMA"."REFRESH_MV"' );  
 END;  

This Job running every minutes to check your Staleness status for your MV. If the status is not FRESH, this job will execute DBMS_REFRESH. The status is NEED_COMPILE, STALE,  UNUSABLE or FRESH for staleness status.

I've run this job scheduler over a week now, and I don't have a problem about that. My MV status is FRESH every time.