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RDBPROD: Restoring and Recovering a Corrupted Oracle Rdb Database Page (Doc ID 260877.1)

Last updated on APRIL 16, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Rdb Server on OpenVMS - Version 7.0 and later
HP OpenVMS VAX
HP OpenVMS Itanium
HP OpenVMS Alpha



Symptoms

Database page corruption can show itself in a variety of ways. The corruption could have been flagged as an error through an RMU Verify. It could be the reason for a failed attempt to back up a database, as Rdb will not allow you to back up a corrupted database. It could also be the result of an error, or a bugcheck, generated when trying to query data on a corrupted page of the database.

An example of the error reported by RMU/BACKUP:

Cause

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In this Document
Symptoms
Cause
Solution
 CASE 1: Snapshot page
 
CASE 2: Live page
References

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