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Ans: Materialized views can be used to replicate data. Earlier the data was replicated through CREATE SNAPSHOT command. Now CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW can be used as synonym for CREATE SNAPSHOT. Query performance is improved using the materialized view as these views pre calculate expensive joins and aggregate operations on the table.
