Hi, That depends on your backup strategy. If you are using rman, you could try block level recovery. Otherwise you need to restore the datafile from a time before the corruption. But you said that you already needed to restored this datafile last month, so it could be that the corruption was already there since long time. Maybe it is best to open a case with oracle to see how to proceed further? regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator e-mail: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel. +32 (0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nagaraj S [nagaraj.chk@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 21 July 2009 23:17 To: D'Hooge Freek Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: Query Fails for particular date Your right Freek. the datafile show block corruption. How to proceed now Page 2969392 is marked corrupt Corrupt block relative dba: 0x18ed4f30 (file 99, block 2969392) Completely zero block found during dbv: DBVERIFY - Verification complete Total Pages Examined : 3628808 Total Pages Processed (Data) : 0 Total Pages Failing (Data) : 0 Total Pages Processed (Index): 2340725 Total Pages Failing (Index): 0 Total Pages Processed (Other): 41655 Total Pages Processed (Seg) : 0 Total Pages Failing (Seg) : 0 Total Pages Empty : 1245484 Total Pages Marked Corrupt : 944 Total Pages Influx : 0 Highest block SCN : 1597765560 (1267.1597765560) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l