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Rolling a Standby Forward using an RMAN Incremental Backup To Fix The Nologging Changes (Doc ID 958181.1)

Last updated on MARCH 08, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 to 12.1.0.2 [Release 10.2 to 12.1]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
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Purpose

This document describes a method of rolling forward a standby database using incremental backups to fix the ORA-1578 and the ORA-26040 errors that were cuased due to Nologging/Unrecoverable operation.

Scope

When a segment is defined with the NOLOGGING attribute and if a NOLOGGING/UNRECOVERABLE operation updates the segment, the online redo log file is updated with minimal information to invalidate the affected blocks when a RECOVERY is later performed.

This kind of NOLOGGING/UNRECOVERABLE will mark the affected blocks as corrupt during the media recovery on the standby database.Now, when you either activate the standby database, or open the standby database with the read-only option, and attempt to read the range of blocks that are marked as "UNRECOVERABLE," you see error messages similar to the following:

ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 2521)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/vobs/oracle/dbs/stdby/tbs_1.f'
ORA-26040: Data block was loaded using the NOLOGGING option

In this article we will be checking the steps to fix the nologging changes have been applied to a small subset of the database and the  nologging changes have been applied to a large portion of the database:

A look-a-like procedure is documented in :

   Oracle® Data Guard Concepts and Administration 11g Release 1 (11.1) Part Number B28294-03

   Section 13.4 Recovering After the NOLOGGING Clause Is Specified

   http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28294/scenarios.htm#i1015738

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In this Document
Purpose
Scope
Details
 STEPS
 1. Follow this step-by-step procedure to roll forward a physical standby database for which nologging changes have been  applied to a small subset of the database:
 2. Follow this step-by-step procedure to roll forward a physical standby database for which nologging changes have been applied to a large portion of the database:
References

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