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A copy of this was sent to Gregory Carter <gcarter_at_digivis.com>
(if that email address didn't require changing)
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:09:29 +0000, you wrote:
>#1 Does anyone know how to check an Oracle 8 database with a script or
>something that would insure its integrity is intact?
>
there is the command:
SQL> analyze table emp validate structure cascade; Table analyzed.
that checks the table and related indexes for structural correctness.
there is the command
$ dbv /some/data/file
that can be run on offlined datafiles (you can run it online but it can report spurious errors since the files are being written to)
there is my favorite:
$ exp .....
yes, export is a great validation tool if your database is reasonably sized. Nothing else exercises your data dictionary and all ata as it does. You get a backup to boot.
In Oracle8i, there is a dbms_repair package as well that can validate and to some degree patch errors.
>#2 I would like to backup my Oracle 8 database by making a dump of it
>every night too disk, otherwise I have to entirely shut it down which
>isn't an option.
>
its called a hot backup. the database does not need to be shutdown in order to backup. See the server admin guide for more info.
>That is it!
>
>-gc
>-gcarter_at_digivis.com
Thomas Kyte
tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
Oracle Service Industries
Reston, VA USA
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