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How To Repair A Corrupted Inventory For RDBMS (Doc ID 298906.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform. *** ***

Purpose

Inventory is required to keep track of Oracle products installed on the machine. Development has released a utility (checkinv) which can be use to repair the  inventory if it becomes corrupted for some reason.

Please note that this version of checkinv works only for 9.2 and 10.1 releases of oracle database. This doesn't work for 10.2 releases of oracle database.

This note is for Generic UNIX and is not relevant for any version of Windows.

Scope

Useful for Oracle Support and experienced DBAs.

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