Conflict resolution in versioned tables

Question

I'm trying to merge two workspaces that contain version-enabled tables. I can't figure out how to resolve conflicts, because I have a lot of rows with the same ID value. They differ only in time interval. If I execute something like this:

DBMS_WM.ResolveConflicts('W_CHILD', 'SOME_TABLE', 'ID=1', 'CHILD');

Which row will be used? How can I specify concrete row?

Answer 1

Conflicts are automatically detected when a merge or refresh operation is requested, and they are presented to the user in conflict views. There is one conflict view for each table.Each conflict view has a name in the form table_name_CONF.
To keep the rows that you want, first of all let me show you the syntax of ResolveConflicts procedure.

DBMS_WM.ResolveConflicts(
   workspace     IN VARCHAR2,
   table_name    IN VARCHAR2,
   where_clause  IN VARCHAR2,
   keep          IN VARCHAR2);

You can use 'keep' parameter to decide on which(Parent, Child or Base) to resolve the conflicts.
In your case you have define 'CHILD' for keep parameter. And where_clause(ID=1 in your case) identifies the rows to be refreshed . Your procedure resolves conflicts involving rows in the SOME_TABLE table in W_CHILD where ID is 1, and uses the values in the child workspace to resolve all such conflicts.
For details visit Oracle documentation:DBMS_WM Package: Reference