Re: How do I corrupt a block

Jared, BBED is available on UNIX, you just have to make it with the make command.

cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib

make -f ins_rdbms.mk $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/bbed

The bbed command can allow you to soft corrupt a block and you can use the "dd" command to hard corrupt the block. The bbed command does have a password and its a secret ;)

Scott
>
> It apparently is only on NT, and unless you have the password,
> which is known only to Oracle Support Personnel, you can't
> use it.
>
> http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/0101/23224038.htm
>
> Jared
>
>
> On Thursday 31 May 2001 12:10, K Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> >
> > The simple thing is you can edit the datablocks using
> > BBED editor. It is shipped with Oracle and You need a
> > password to use that utility. You can browse and edit
> > the data blocks.
> >
> >
> > $BBED will give the required details. BUT IT IS
> > DANGEROUS>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >
> > --- novicedba <novicedba_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > This may sound funny. I want to know how to
> > > corrupt a block. I want to test the different
> > > methods of identifying block corruption, but I don't
> > > have sample data blocks.
> > > Please help me
> > >
> > > novice
> >
> > =====
> > Have a nice day !!
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Best Regards,
> > K Gopalakrishnan,
> > Bangalore, INDIA.
> >
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