Tuesday, 11 December 2012

dbverify utility

This great command line utility to check file level or segment level corruption:

This example for datafile level check: 

dbv userid=bert/bert file=D:\Oracle\oradata\ORDB1\ABC.DBF blocksize=4096

Segment level check:

dbv userid=bert/bert segment_id=4.1024.10278

to find above information about segment run following query:

select tablespace_name, segment_name, TABLESPACE_ID, HEADER_FILE, HEADER_BLOCK
from sys.sys_user_segs
where tablespace_name='ABC' and SEGMENT_NAME like 'XYZ%';

TABLESPACE_NAME SEGMENT_NAME TABLESPACE_ID HEADER_FILE HEADER_BLOCK
---------------- ---------------- ------------- ----------- -----------------------------------------------
ABC                                       XYZ                           4                       1024                             10278
ABC                                       XYZ2                         4                       1024                             10534

Block corruption can also be detected by querying the v$database_block_corruption dynamic performance view. To repair block corruption, the dbms_repair package can be used with Oracle 11g.



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