Re: dbverify

"Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
>
> Somewhat to my astonishment, I discovered this afternoon that dbverify works
> perfectly well to detect corruption in control files, not just data files.
> A few new installations later, and I demonstrated (to my own satisfaction,
> at least!) that it's had that capability since 8.1.6.
>
> This was news to me, as all the documentation states that it can only be
> applied to 'cache managed files' -and I can't remember the last time bits of
> the Control File found their way into the Buffer Cache!
>
> So my question is: does anyone have an Oracle 7 or an Oracle 8.0 database
> handy with which they are prepared to do a quick dbv check of a Control File
> and see whether it works? I'd like to find out when exactly this apparently
> undocumented capability crept into good ol' dbv.
>

Here it works with a closed DB and an open DB (8.0.5 on Linux)

Uwe

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