Corrupting a data block

Hi,
we want to test a block corruption in a data file. Is there any way to corrupt a block ? Because actually we do not have any :
SQL> select FILE#, BLOCK#,BLOCKS from V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION;
no rows selected
Many thanks.

You can try dd command, be careful you can essentially wipe out while disk with one command of dd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)

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Unable to Drop table from a corrupted Data Block

while exporting tables i got message data block corrupted 7481. and while i was trying to drop the table, found SQL Recursive Error.
Pls Help me. i am on the way to recreate my database..
Thanks
Rinson

Is 7481 the block number?. Block corruption can be diagnosed using the CLI (Command Line Interface) dbv (database verify). You can also diagnose it by looking for the corresponding error message in the alert.log.
Trying to recover data from a corrupt block is only possible using rman. Otherwise, the only thing you can do is to mark the block as corrupt using DBMS_REPAIR, rebuild the table and try to rescue data by recapturing it.

Need advice on ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted

We have a development database server version- 10.2.0.3 with materialized views refresh as complete every morning. Yesterday we had a power failure and the server went down and database was shutdown unexpectedly.
When we restarted the database after the server restarted, we found some of the datablocks got corrupted . Following were the exceptions that we saw in the alert.log.
Errors in file /i01_01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/orcl9/bdump/orcl9_smon_7547.trc:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 11, block # 257712)
ORA-01110: data file 11: '/i01_01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/oradata/orcl9/ts_gen_data_02.dbf'
ORACLE Instance orcl9 (pid = 8) - Error 1578 encountered while recovering transaction (9, 38) on object 54463
I tried the following query to see the segment type.
select owner, segment_name, segment_type from dba_extents where file_id =11 and 257712 between block_id and block_id + blocks - 1;
OWNER
SEGMENT_NAME
SEGMENT_TYPE
VISH
INVENTORY_TXN
TABLE
where " INVENTORY_TXN " is a materialized view that was using the block that got corrupted. I can always recreate the MV by dropping and recreating it. Will it solve the problem???
If not, how can I recover/repair the block.???
Can anyone advice on this. Thanks very much in advance.

To recover a corrupted block,the best way out is to use Blockrecover command of RMAN. So you would need RmAN backup to perform the operation.But first ypu you need to ensure that this is a persistent error or not? Is this error is coming repeatedly or just once it happened?
About Blockrecover command,read here,
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14191/rcmrecov005.htm#BRADV157
HTH
Aman....

Data Block Corruption

I'm on 9i R2 Patch 7 on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
How do you fix data block corruption in a Table?
Is the some way to retrieve the data from the Table drop it then recreate and reimport the data?
or do you have to succumb with restoring the Database from the last known good backup?

Hey, you can do the BMR (Block Media Recovery).
Since block corruption is to few subsets of blocks, i.e. a single table, you dont need to restore from the previous valid backup, you can simply do the following to achieve BMR.
Connect to rman and run the following:
run{ backup validate database};
Once the above commend is finishes, exit from RMAN and connect to the database as / as sysdba and use the following view to know the details required for BMR.
select * from V$backup_corruption;
The above queries gives you file# and block# information. Once you have the information do the BMR using following command at the RMAN prompt:
run {blockrecover datafile # block #};
# : indicated the datafile number and block number from the above view.
Let me know if you have any further issues.
You can also use view V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION to view the file# and corrupted blocks information.
Jaffar

Unable to drop materialized view with corrupted data blocks

Hi,
The alert log of our database is giving this message
Wed Jan 31 05:23:13 2007
ORACLE Instance mesh (pid = 9) - Error 1578 encountered while recovering transaction (6, 15) on object 13355.
Wed Jan 31 05:23:13 2007
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/admin/mesh/bdump/mesh_smon_4369.trc:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 5, block # 388260)
ORA-01110: data file 5: '/u03/oradata/mesh/mview.dbf'
No one is using this mview still oracle is trying to recover this transaction (6, 15).
when i tried to drop this mview it gives me this error
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 5, block # 388260)
ORA-01110: data file 5: '/u03/oradata/mesh/mview.dbf'
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT", line 2255
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT", line 2461
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT", line 2430
ORA-06512: at line 1
I have tried to fix the corrupted data blocks by using dbms_repair package, but of no use.
I have marked this block to be skipped by using dbms_repair.skip_block but still unable to drop it.
Please suggest what should I do?
Thanks in advance
Anuj

You are lucky if only your undesirable MV is affected by theese corrupted blocks. This is an advice to do a complete-super-full-hot-cold-middle backup of ypur database and search for any disk for a "possible replace".
God save us!

Oracle V11.2.0.3 ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted - OBJECT = IDL_UB1$

Hi,
I am running into a data corruption issue.
My database is:
SQL> select banner from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
CORE 11.2.0.3.0 Production
TNS for Linux: Version 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
The following information is written to the alert.log File
alert.log File
Mon Nov 07 17:24:12 2011
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
Picked latch-free SCN scheme 2
Using LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 parameter default value as USE_DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST
Autotune of undo retention is turned on.
IMODE=BR
ILAT =27
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
Starting up:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production.
ORACLE_HOME = /home/oracle/dbhome
System name: Linux
Node name: dbl-ora
Release: 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 (This is rhel5.7 or CentOs5.7)
Version: #1 SMP Tue Sep 6 20:14:03 EDT 2011
Machine: i686 / vm
Mon Nov 07 19:42:14 2011
Corrupt Block Found
TSN = 0, TSNAME = SYSTEM
RFN = 1, BLK = 52346, RDBA = 4246650
OBJN = 225, OBJD = 225, OBJECT = IDL_UB1$, SUBOBJECT =
SEGMENT OWNER = SYS, SEGMENT TYPE = Table Segment
Errors in file /home/oracle/diag/rdbms/ora11/K/trace/K_ora_5425.trc (incident=11053):
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 52346)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/home/oracle/oradata/ora11/system01.dbf'
Incident details in: /home/oracle/diag/rdbms/ora11/K/incident/incdir_11053/K_ora_5425_i11053.trc
I was even able to detect the row that is generating the issue.
In my case the obj# 33573 until 33577 are causing the issue,
though I have no idea what sort of objects are affected.
SQL> select * from idl_ub1$ where obj#=33572;
OBJ# PART VERSION PIECE# LENGTH P
33572 1 0 0 9032 F
SQL> select * from idl_ub1$ where obj#=33573;
ERROR:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 52346)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/home/oracle/oradata/ora11/system01.dbf'
no rows selected
SQL> select * from idl_ub1$ where obj#=33577;
ERROR:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 52358)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/home/oracle/oradata/ora11/system01.dbf'
no rows selected
SQL> select * from idl_ub1$ where obj#=33578;
OBJ# PART VERSION PIECE# LENGTH P
33578 1 0 0 9032 F
Any idea, how to fix this problem without recreating the whole database?
Thanks in advance.
wmager
Edited by: magerxr on Nov 7, 2011 8:27 AM

magerxr wrote:
Thanks again for your quick advise.
Here comes the result of dbv against my system tablespace.
[oracle@dbl-ora ~]$ dbv FILE=/home/oracle/oradata/ora11/system01.dbf
DBVERIFY: Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production on Mon Nov 7 22:39:11 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
DBVERIFY - Verification starting : FILE = /home/oracle/oradata/ora11/system01.dbf
Page 52346 is influx - most likely media corrupt
Corrupt block relative dba: 0x0040cc7a (file 1, block 52346)
Fractured block found during dbv:
Data in bad block:
type: 6 format: 2 rdba: 0x0040cc7a
last change scn: 0x0000.0010acfa seq: 0x1 flg: 0x04
spare1: 0x0 spare2: 0x0 spare3: 0x0
consistency value in tail: 0x00000000
check value in block header: 0x8fda
computed block checksum: 0xaafbselect owner, segment_type, segment_name from dba_extents
where file_id = 1 and 52346 between block_id and block_id+blocks-1;
>
Page 52347 is marked corrupt
Corrupt block relative dba: 0x0040cc7b (file 1, block 52347)
Bad header found during dbv:
Data in bad block:
type: 1 format: 6 rdba: 0x0000a206
last change scn: 0xacfa.0040cc7b seq: 0x10 flg: 0x00
spare1: 0xfa spare2: 0xac spare3: 0x401
consistency value in tail: 0x00000000
check value in block header: 0x0
block checksum disabled
select owner, segment_type, segment_name from dba_extents
where file_id = 1 and 52347 between block_id and block_id+blocks-1;
Page 52361 is marked corrupt
Corrupt block relative dba: 0x0040cc89 (file 1, block 52361)
Bad header found during dbv:
Data in bad block:
type: 1 format: 6 rdba: 0x0000a206
last change scn: 0xacfb.0040cc89 seq: 0x10 flg: 0x00
spare1: 0xfb spare2: 0xac spare3: 0x401
consistency value in tail: 0x32298500
check value in block header: 0x0
block checksum disabled
select owner, segment_type, segment_name from dba_extents
where file_id = 1 and 52361 between block_id and block_id+blocks-1;
>
>
DBVERIFY - Verification complete
Total Pages Examined : 122880
Total Pages Processed (Data) : 81298
Total Pages Failing (Data) : 0
Total Pages Processed (Index): 22307
Total Pages Failing (Index): 0
Total Pages Processed (Other): 3349
Total Pages Processed (Seg) : 1
Total Pages Failing (Seg) : 0
Total Pages Empty : 15910
Total Pages Marked Corrupt : 16
Total Pages Influx : 1
Total Pages Encrypted : 0
Highest block SCN : 4064615 (0.4064615)post results from 3 SQL above

DATA BLOCK CORRUPTION : ORA-1578 해결 방법

제품 : ORACLE SERVER
작성날짜 : 2005-08-18
DATA BLOCK CORRUPTION : ORA-1578 해결 방법
=========================================
모든 오라클 데이타 블럭은 sequence 번호(seq)와 incarnation 번호(inc)를
갖고 있다. ORA-1578 에러는 seq=0 이고 inc <> 0 (새로운 블럭이 아님)일 때
발생한다. ORA-1578 에러는 ORA-600[3339] 에러와 함께 발생하곤 한다.
ORA-1578 에러가 발생하면 corruption이 발생한 화일 번호와 블럭 번호를
알려준다. 여기서는 이 때의 화일번호를 f, 블럭번호를 b 라고 부르기로 한다.
<해결 방법>
1) 우선 해야 할 일은 어떠한 오브젝트가 corrupt 되었는가를 알아내는 것이다.
다음의 스크립트를 이용하면 알 수 있다.
SQL>select segment_name, segment_type
from dba_extents
where file_id = f and
b between block_id and block_id + blocks - 1;
2) 만약 해당 세그먼트가 인덱스이면 drop 시키고 다시 생성하면 된다.
3) 만약 해당 세그먼트가 테이블이면 corrupt된 블럭의 데이타는 손상된 것이다.
4) 만약 해당 테이블이 들어있는 export 화일이 있다면 손상된 테이블을 drop
시키고 import 받는 것이 제일 간단한 방법이다. 하지만, 만약 export 받은
화일이 없거나 backup해 놓은 화일도 없다면 해당 테이블에 인덱스가 생성되어
있는 경우에 한해서 다음의 방법을 사용해서 복구를 하도록 한다.
5) 해당 테이블에 대한 인덱스가 생성되어 있다면 이를 이용해서 corrupt된
블럭을 피해갈 수 있다. 이 방법은 다음과 같다.
- empno, ename, deptno 를 컬럼으로 가지는 emp 테이블이 corrupt 되었다고
가정하자. 그리고, empno 컬럼에 인덱스가 생성되어 있다고 하자. 클러스터화
되지 않은 모든 테이블은 Unique한 rowid를 가진다.
rowid를 varchar2/hexadecimal 형식으로 표현하려면 rowidtochar 함수를 이용
한다.
SQL> select rowidtochar(rowid) from emp;
rowid는 총 18자로 block address(8자), dot(1자), row address(4자),
dot(1자), file address(4자)로 구성되어 있다.
SQL> select empno, rowid
from emp
where empno > 0
위의 스크립트를 실행시키면 다음과 같은 결과를 얻게 된다.
EMPNO ROWID
100 00000003.0000.0006
101 00000003.0001.0006
102 00000003.0002.0006
103 00000003.0003.0006
500 00000004.0000.000A
501 00000004.0001.000A
755 0000001A.0005.000A
756 0000001A.000C.000A
만약 인덱스가 character 컬럼에 대한 것이었다면 위의 query 문장을 다음과 같
이 바꿀 수 있다.
SQL> select empno, rowid
from emp
where empno > '';
예를 들어 다음과 같은 에러 메시지가 떨어졌다고 하자.
01578, 00000, "ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 10, block # 4)
그러면, 다음의 스크립트를 사용하여 손상된 블럭에 있는 employee 에 대한
empno를 구할 수 있다.
SQL> select empno from emp
where empno > 0
and rowidtochar(rowid) like '00000004.%.000A';
EMPNO ROWID
500 00000004.0000.000A
501 00000004.0001.000A
이제 emp 테이블과 같은 구조를 갖는 새로운 테이블을 만든다.
SQL> create table temp
as select * from emp
where 1 = 2;
그런 다음 손상된 부분을 피해서 새로운 테이블에 손상된 테이블의 데이타를
추가한다.
SQL> insert into temp select * from emp where empno < 500;
SQL> insert into temp select * from emp where empno > 501;
손상된 테이블을 drop 시키고 temp 테이블의 이름을 emp로 변경한다.
그리고, 백업된 자료나 문서 자료를 통하여 손상된 부분에 대한 정보를 추가한다.
6) 손상된 블럭에 여러 개의 row가 존재하고 있다면 다음의 방법을 이용한다.
SQL> create table empnos as
select empno from emp
where empno > 0
and rowidtochar(rowid) not like '00000004.%.000A';
이 스크립트를 이용하면 손상된 block에 포함되지 않는 empno들을 알 수 있다.
다음의 스크립트를 계속 실행시켜 복구를 한다.
SQL> create table temp as select * from emp where 1 = 2;
SQL> insert into temp
select emp.empno, emp.ename, emp.deptno
from emp, empnos
where emp.empno > 0
and emp.empno = empnos.empno;
7) 만약 Data Dictionary의 table이나 index에서 손상된 block이 발생했다면
지원을 요청해야 한다.

Hi,
Take a look in the following Metalink Notes:
- DBMS_REPAIR example - Doc ID: NOTE:68013.1
- Handling Oracle Block Corruptions in Oracle7/8/8i/9i/10g - Doc ID: NOTE:28814.
- Prevention, Detection and Repair of Database Corruption - Doc ID: NOTE:76375.1
Cheers,
Francisco Munoz Alvarez
http://www.oraclenz.com

Data Block Corruption in sysaux01

dear all,
analyze table SYSMAN.MGMT_METRICS_RAW validate structure cascade ;
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 3, block # 31263)
ORA-01110: data file 3: '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/denimlhr/sysaux01.dbf'
We create 'REPAIR_TEST' Table by follwoing comand
begin
dbms_repair.admin_tables(
table_name => 'REPAIR_TEST',
table_type => dbms_repair.repair_table,
action => dbms_repair.create_action,
tablespace => 'SYSAUX'
end;
We execute the following quey
declare corr_count binary_integer;
begin
corr_count := 0;
dbms_repair.CHECK_OBJECT (
schema_name => 'SYSMAN',
object_name => 'MGMT_METRICS_RAW',
partition_name => null,
object_type => dbms_repair.table_object,
repair_table_name => 'REPAIR_TEST',
flags => null,
relative_fno => null,
block_start => null,
block_end => null,
corrupt_count => corr_count
dbms_output.put_line(to_char(corr_count));
end;
NOW THE FOLLOWING ERROR IS Occuring .
ORA-24123: feature IOT support is not yet implemented
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_REPAIR", line 293
ORA-06512: at line 6
please Advise
Regards/Waseem

What's your db version?
Which error now you want to track ?The block corruption one or the one which is in bold?
IF the one wich is in bold is the issue than here is what Oracle says about it,
ORA-24123:     feature string is not yet implemented
Cause:     An attempt was made to use the specified feature, but the feature is not yet implemented.
Action:     Do not attempt to use the feature.
Aman....

Data block corrupted on standby database (logical corruption)

Hi all,
we are getting the below error on our DRSITE,it is MANUAL PHYSCIAL STANDBY DATABSE...
The following error has occurred:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 3, block # 3236947)
ORA-01110: data file 3: '/bkp/oradata/orcl_raw_cadata01'
ORA-26040: Data block was loaded using the NOLOGGING option
I have checked in the Primary database, that there are some object which are not being logged into the redo logfiles.....
SQL> select table_name,INDEX_NAME,logging from dba_indexes where logging='NO'
TABLE_NAME INDEX_NAME LOG
MENU_MENUS NUX_MENU_MENUS_01 NO
MENU_USER_MENUS MENU_USER_MENUS_X NO
OM_CITY IDM_OM_CITY_CITY_NAME NO
OM_EMPLOYER EMPLR_CODE_PK NO
OM_EMPLOYER IDM_EMPLR_EMPLR_NAME NOOM_STUDENT_HEAD OM_STUDENT_HEAD_HEAD_UK01 NO
OT_DAK_ENTRY_DETL DED_SYS_ID_PK NO
OT_DAK_ENTRY_HEAD DEH_SYS_ID_PK NO
OT_DAK_ENTRY_HEAD IDM_DEH_DT_APPL_REGION NO
OT_DAK_ENTRY_HEAD IDM_DEH_REGION_CODE NO
OT_DAK_REFUNDS_DETL DRD_SYS_ID_PK NO
TABLE_NAME INDEX_NAME LOG
OT_MEM_FEE_COL_DETL IDM_MFCD_MFCH_SYS_ID NO
OM_STUDENT_HEAD IDM_STUD_COURSE NO
13 rows selected.
so the main problem is in the OM_EMPOYER tables if i would delete the indexes from that table recreate it again with the logging clause,and then apply the archvied logs to the DRSITE.WILL THE problem will resolve.
Pls suggest me...

Hi..
Firstly how did you confirm that it was that index only.Can you post the output of
SELECT tablespace_name, segment_type, owner, segment_name
FROM dba_extents WHERE file_id = 3 and 3236947 between block_id
AND block_id + blocks - 1;
This query can take time, if are sure that its the index don't fire this command .
Secondly, when you will drop and recreate the index, it will be logged into the redo logfile.This information will be be logged in to an the archivelog file as its the replica of the redo logfile. Then when you apply this archive log maually, it will drop that index and then recreate it using the same sql.
HTH
Anand

ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 53713)

When i tried to export data from db (Oracle 11g, 64bit on Linux)
Im getting following error
About to export specified users ...
. exporting pre-schema procedural objects and actions
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 604 encountered
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 53713)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u02/oradata/RSDB1/system01.dbf'
EXP-00083: The previous problem occurred when calling EXFSYS.DBMS_EXPFIL_DEPASEX P.schema_info_exp
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 604 encountered
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 55497)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u02/oradata/RSDB1/system01.dbf'
EXP-00083: The previous problem occurred when calling SYS.DBMS_CUBE_EXP.schema_i nfo_exp
. exporting foreign function library names for user WB_APP_MANAGER
. exporting PUBLIC type synonyms
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 604 encountered
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 44638)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u02/oradata/RSDB1/system01.dbf'
EXP-00000: Export terminated unsuccessfully
I donot understand how to solve this issue Please help me to solve this issue..
Thanks

891620 wrote:
When i tried to export data from db (Oracle 11g, 64bit on Linux)
Im getting following error
About to export specified users ...
. exporting pre-schema procedural objects and actions
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 604 encountered
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 53713)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u02/oradata/RSDB1/system01.dbf'
EXP-00083: The previous problem occurred when calling EXFSYS.DBMS_EXPFIL_DEPASEX P.schema_info_exp
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 604 encountered
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 55497)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u02/oradata/RSDB1/system01.dbf'
EXP-00083: The previous problem occurred when calling SYS.DBMS_CUBE_EXP.schema_i nfo_exp
. exporting foreign function library names for user WB_APP_MANAGER
. exporting PUBLIC type synonyms
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 604 encountered
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 44638)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u02/oradata/RSDB1/system01.dbf'
EXP-00000: Export terminated unsuccessfully
I donot understand how to solve this issue Please help me to solve this issue..
Thanksrun dbv against '/u02/oradata/RSDB1/system01.dbf'
& post results back here
dbv
DBVERIFY: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Oct 14 20:39:11 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Keyword     Description                    (Default)
FILE        File to Verify                 (NONE)
START       Start Block                    (First Block of File)
END         End Block                      (Last Block of File)
BLOCKSIZE   Logical Block Size             (8192)
LOGFILE     Output Log                     (NONE)
FEEDBACK    Display Progress               (0)
PARFILE     Parameter File                 (NONE)
USERID      Username/Password              (NONE)
SEGMENT_ID Segment ID (tsn.relfile.block) (NONE)
HIGH_SCN    Highest Block SCN To Verify    (NONE)
            (scn_wrap.scn_base OR scn)

ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted on tables in sysaux tablespace

Dear Experts,
From the alert log file we noticed data block corruptions on one of our datafiles. After further investigation, we realized that the corruptions were on 3 of the AWR related tables in the SYSAUX tablespace:
1. WRH$_LIBRARYCACHE
2. WRH$_TEMPSTATXS
3. WRI$_ALERT_OUTSTANDING
The bad news is that we may not have a valid rman backup to do the recovery due to the retention policy - RECOVERY WINDOW OF 2 DAYS. Since this is a development database with limited monitoring, we did not discover the corruption until 6 days later. The issue happened about 6 days ago (about Christmas time).
So, what are our recovery options? Can someone advice? We are thinking about drop and recreate the 3 affected v$WR* tables, but not quite sure about the impact to the system if we drop and recreate the 3 objects. Did someone experience this type of recovery. If you did, what are your approaches?
We are running oracle 10.2.0.3 version.
I greatly appreciate your input and suggestion. Thanks!!!

as long as you have a backup of ur database before christmas, you can use the " MAXDAYS " cmd to get ur backup working so long as you have not used delete obsolote....had a same sistuation....where i had a backup and trying to restore it ...kept saying no valid backup...after going thru some stuff...found the MAXDAYS cmd to use my backup...here is an example ...
$ rman target /
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Sun Apr 6 09:05:44 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
connected to target database (not started)
RMAN> SET DBID=1528894801
executing command: SET DBID
RMAN> startup force nomount;
startup failed: ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
LRM-00109: could not open parameter file '/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/dbs/initsameera.ora'
starting Oracle instance without parameter file for retrival of spfile
Oracle instance started
Total System Global Area 159383552 bytes
Fixed Size 1259672 bytes
Variable Size 58722152 bytes
Database Buffers 92274688 bytes
Redo Buffers 7127040 bytes
RMAN> set controlfile autobackup format for device type disk to '/u99/backup/sameera/control_spfile_%F';
executing command: SET CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN> run
2> {
3> allocate channel p1 type disk;
4> restore spfile to pfile '/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/dbs/initsameera.ora' from autobackup;
5> shutdown abort;
6> }
allocated channel: p1
channel p1: sid=36 devtype=DISK
Starting restore at 06-APR-08
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080406
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080405
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080404
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080403
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080402
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080401
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080331
channel p1: no autobackup in 7 days found
released channel: p1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 04/06/2008 09:09:09
RMAN-06172: no autobackup found or specified handle is not a valid copy or piece
Solution:
RMAN> shutdown abort;
RMAN> EXIT;
$ ps -ef |grep pmon
oracle 2891 2856 0 09:05 pts/1 00:00:00 grep pmon
oracle 7448 1 0 Apr05 ? 00:00:00 ora_pmon_primary
$export ORACLE_SID=sameera
$ rman target /
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Sun Apr 6 09:05:44 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
connected to target database (not started)
RMAN> SET DBID=1528894801
executing command: SET DBID
RMAN> startup force nomount;
startup failed: ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
LRM-00109: could not open parameter file '/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/db s/initsameera.ora'
starting Oracle instance without parameter file for retrival of spfile
Oracle instance started
Total System Global Area 159383552 bytes
Fixed Size 1259672 bytes
Variable Size 58722152 bytes
Database Buffers 92274688 bytes
Redo Buffers 7127040 bytes
RMAN> set controlfile autobackup format for device type disk to '/u99/backup/sameera/control_spfile_%F';
executing command: SET CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN> run
2> {
3> allocate channel p1 type disk;
4> restore spfile to pfile '/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/dbs/initsameera.ora' from autobackup maxdays 15;
5> shutdown abort;
6> }
released channel: ORA_DISK_1
allocated channel: p1
channel p1: sid=36 devtype=DISK
Starting restore at 06-APR-08
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080406
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080405
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080404
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080403
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080402
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080401
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080331
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080330
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080329
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080328
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080327
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080326
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080325
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080324
channel p1: looking for autobackup on day: 20080323
channel p1: autobackup found: /u99/backup/sameera/control_spfile_c-1528894801-20080323-00
channel p1: SPFILE restore from autobackup complete
Finished restore at 06-APR-08
Oracle instance shut down
Check to make sure if initsameera.ora exists in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs location.
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/dbs
$ ls -ltr
total 7052
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 2560 Apr 5 13:21 spfileprimary.ora
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 7061504 Apr 5 13:23 snapcf_primary.f
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle oinstall 1544 Apr 5 18:42 hc_sameera.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1087 Apr 6 09:12 initsameera.ora
$ pwd
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/dbs
$

Data blocks are corrupted : Error ORA-01578

Hi All,
We having a serious problem with the oracle running in our development server.
Data blocks are corrupted with the error ORA-01578
and we have identified the segment as an Table TBTCO.
Hence can any body suggest us the way to resolve this.
Currently we dont require any data from that table. In that
case can we drop down the table and import it again with
the same table downloaded from production server?
As we dont have any oracle DBA's please suggest us the way to resolve this.
Please advise.
Thanks & Regards,
DVRK

Hey,
if you are using RMAN backup you can restore and recover only the corrupted blocks.
For more information take a look at that nice blog article from Lars:
Some hints to make handling of oracle datablock corruptions more efficient
If you don't have any idea howto handle this situation, please open a SAP call.
Regards
Stefa

How to overcome from Data block corruption error

Hi,
I am using one table when i was deleting one row, i encountered "Data block corruption error".
Kindly suggest solutions for the same.
Regards,
Abhishek

If you have a recovery manager backup, then you can perform a block recovery operation, after the information shown on the error message where the file# and the block# are displayed you can perform the block recovery operation.
Syntax for the block recovery operation can be found here : BLOCKRECOVER
In case of an index block, it is enough to rebuild the index.
In case you have a regular backup with archivelog enabled you can restore the damaged datafile and perform a simple file recovery operation.
One more additional tip that can be used, you may be interested in using the DBMS_REPAIR package unit.
Finally, I suggest you to check the complete datafile using dbv (Database Verifier) utility to find out if there are more corrupt blocks in your datafile, and proactively run this utility as a maintenance task.
~ Madrid

Data Block Corruption error

Hi
I have a partitioned table which has bitmap indexes on it.
Some of the bitmap indexes are giving datablock corruption error. Currently I am dropping the index and recreating it.
Is there any other way to resolve this issue?
Thanks.

What type of system is this - OLTP or Datawarehouse ?
Since you did not post the exact Oracle error received, lets try some educated guess. Are you getting this error:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # string, block # string)
Cause: The data block indicated was corrupted, mostly due to software errors.
Action: Try to restore the segment containing the block indicated. This may involve dropping the segment and recreating it. If there is a trace file, report the errors in it to your ORACLE representative.
Did you see if there was something more useful in the trace file (if created)?

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While doing a routine maintenance, I realized that my production database has two bad data block.
select count(*) from v$database_block_corruption;
COUNT(*)
2I tried using blockrecover command in RMAN and quickly realized that we have already deleted the backup set that could have help us restored the corrupted blocks.
Is there a way I could fix the corrupted block without the backup?
Thank you,

Pl see MOS Doc 28814.1 (Handling Oracle Block Corruptions in Oracle7/8/8i/9i/10g/11g)schavali
Thank you, I will look at this document sometime today.

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