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RE: Oracle database consistency checks

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Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 18:40:36 -0700
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Thanx Mohan ! We are benefitted !

Rao

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On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:05:24  
 Mohan, Ross wrote:

>I should mention, for completeness, that
>for block corruption *protection* (as opposed
>to post hoc detection), one can set block checksumming
>and logical block checking as well,
>
>AND
>
>you can use DBMS_REPAIR ( another one of the built-ins i referred to
>earlier)
>to perform a number of actions.
>
>AND/OR
>
>Support can help you with special-purpose "salvage" scripts, both
>in Pro*C (or whatever it's called now) and SQL.
>
>
>hth!
>
>
>- Ross Mohan
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:30 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>I don't necessarily agree with this. Only a manual run of DBV
>revealed the problem in both cases here.
>
>|| sorry, didn't see the cases you cite. In general, one should run
>ANALYZE *and* dbv for the best in block corruption detection. Please be
>aware that running dbv on a live database is ok, but will report spurious
>"errors" on blocks that are in transition.
>
>I've had two different instances where dbv has reported "corrupt" files.
>
>|| did you run it on a pre 8i "non" data database file ( i.e. a redo, temp,
>or rollback segment? ) and for 8i binaries, did you run it on a COLD
>database?
>
>In one case it was the SYSTEM tablespace that was corrupt.
>
>|| which object? SYSTEM can/may contain RBS which, in pre8i are NOT
>designed to be "dbv'ed".
>
>hth!
>
>
>My only option was a FULL export/import. :-(
>
>|| OUCH!!!
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