Re: corrupted block

Nope, SQL-Backtrack. I need to dig into those docs to see if that is a feature or configuration issue.

DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
>
> Stephen
> RMAN ignored your corrupted block? Ya gotta tell us more man! We're
> relying on it to catch everything. Did you have the MAXCORRUPT parameter
> set?
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
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> -----Original Message-----
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> I think more recent versions of Oracle have options for skipping corrupt
> blocks with exports.
>
> One possible way:
> If you have a valid primary key index on the table, and the index is in a
> good tablespace, you might be able to cycle through all the primary keys,
> select the row corresponding to that primary key and insert it into a new
> table. I was able to do this about a month ago with a 8.1.7 database. In
> my case, I think it was a block header that was corrupt, not data; so I got
> all the data OK. It was rather slow, grabbing and inserting one row at a
> time; but I got all the data. As long as I didn't do anything that would
> cause a table scan of any kind, I could get the data.
>
> By the way, rman not only failed to spot the corruption, but backed it up
> AND restored the corruption! My initial attempt was to just rename the
> datafile at the file system level, then recover it from the previous backup.
> I could relate another one of those TAR non-support -- total and complete
> NON-support! -- on this one.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > So my question is, if all backups contain the corrupted
> > block, how would
> > I copy all non-corrupted blocks from this table into a new table?
> >
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