Re: Use of DBVERIFY utility

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 18:32:13 +0100, Jack Jolly wrote (in message <E1$48qSJ#GA.97_at_pet.hiwaay.net>):
>
> While poking around in the O8 books (specifically the Utilities Ref Guide),
> I found info about a utility named DB Verify (exe is named DBVERF80). It
> will verify an offline data file or log file. I ran it according to the
> example in the book:
>
> dbverf80 file=dbfile feedback=100
>
> Where dbfile was the name of one of my db datafiles. It reported no
> corruptions, but I'm curious to know what would happen if it had found any?
> If you get a "datafile corrupt" msg within Oracle then run this utility on
> the datafile will it somehow fix it?
>
> JJ
>
> Jack G. Jolly Intergraph PDS Support
>
>
>
>

No, if it detects a problem at all, it will just report it. The 7.3.4 version did not detect all problems, don't know about the 8. The only thing I trust so far is export for detecting db-file corruptions.

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