Hello, I'm not sure what a static table is but the backup I have is a cold backup, so I assume it was very static when backed up. let me see what I can do with RMAN, thank you. --- On Tue, 3/23/10, Storey, Robert (DCSO) <RStorey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Storey, Robert (DCSO) <RStorey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: Fw: Re: ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted To: po04541@xxxxxxxxx, "Oracle L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 1:47 PM I know this might be a shot in the dark, but, can RMAN from a 9.0 install be used to connect to an 8.1 database and do a block recovery? I’ve not used RMAN much, but as I understand it, even on a database that is NOT backed up by rman, as long as you have a clean copy of the datafile containing the tablespace with the bad block, and all the archive logs since the clean copy of the datafile, you could do a Data Block Recovery? Will that work on an 8i system? You said you were goint to recrate and import odes that mean the table is a static table? From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of patrick obrien Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:42 PM To: Oracle L Subject: Re: Fw: Re: ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted Okay, I used the following command to get around the LONG data type but I guess the DBMS_REPAIR did not work because, according to the alert log its a damaged header block? I'm thinking I'll have to go to an old backup, restore it in dev, export the the table, drop the table in prod, recreate it, import the data. Unless some smart Oracle DBA has a better idea? thank you. POB. SQL> insert into AMS_AFINADM.salvage_AD_OBJATCH select ATCH_ID,ATCH_LEN,TO_LOB(ATCH_ATCH) from AMS_AFINADM.AD_OBJATCH; insert into AMS_AFINADM.salvage_AD_OBJATCH select ATCH_ID,ATCH_LEN,TO_LOB(ATCH_ATCH) from AMS_AFINADM.AD_OBJATCH * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 54, block # 345609) ORA-01110: data file 54: '/u10/dbs/fsco/object02.dbf' root@Mxxx:/u01/app/ora/adm/fsco/bdump>#cat alert*log|grep header Bad header found during buffer read check value in block header: 0x0, check value not calculated Bad header found during buffer read check value in block header: 0x0, check value not calculated Bad header found during buffer read check value in block header: 0x0, check value not calculated Bad header found during buffer read check value in block header: 0x0, check value not calculated --- On Tue, 3/23/10, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted To: po04541@xxxxxxxxx Cc: "Oracle L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 9:59 AM Check out the sqlplus copy command for this. On Mar 23, 2010 4:50 PM, "patrick obrien" <po04541@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hmm, now I"m trying to copy this table using the create table as select and it does not like my LONG data type, any thoughts, thank you! SQL> exec DBMS_REPAIR.SKIP_CORRUPT_BLOCKS('AMS_AFINADM','AD_OBJATCH'); PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL> CREATE TABLE AMS_AFINADM.AD_OBJATCH_NEW AS SELECT * FROM AMS_AFINADM.AD_OBJATCH; 2 AS SELECT * FROM AMS_AFINADM.AD_OBJATCH * ERROR at line 2: ORA-00997: illegal use of LONG datatype --- On Mon, 3/22/10, Saurabh Sood <email2sood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Saurabh Sood <email2sood@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted To: po04541@xxxxxxxxx Cc: "Oracle L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Monday, March 22, 2010, 11:33 PM >> >> Hi, >> >> You can use event 10231 to complete the import process. >> refer to following link ...