Thursday, February 19, 2009

investigating block corruption

step 1. Populate the v$database_block_corruption
backup validate check logical database;
step 2. Check whether there are any corrupt blocks:
select count(1) from V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION;
step 3. investigate which objects these blocks belong to
create table block_corr as select file#,block# from V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION where 1=0;
create unique index bcorr_pk on block_corr(file#,block#);
insert into block_corr select file#,block# from V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION order by file#,block#;

step 4. create a table to store faulted segments:
create table corr_objects as
SELECT de.segment_type, de.owner, de.segment_name, de.PARTITION_NAME
FROM dba_extents de, block_corr bc
WHERE de.file_id = bc.file#
and bc.block# between block_id AND block_id + blocks - 1
group by de.segment_type, de.owner, de.segment_name, de.PARTITION_NAME;

set lines 300 pages 999
col segment_name for a30
col PARTITION_NAME for a30
select * from corr_objects;

step 5. segment header block might be corrupt causing dba_extents not returning rows
select ds.owner, ds.segment_name, ds.segment_type, bc.file#, bc.block#
from dba_segments ds, block_corr bc
where ds.header_file=bc.file# and ds.header_block = bc.block#;

step 6. If it doesn't belong to an object, double check if it does exists in dba_free_space to check if the block belongs to file space usage bitmap.
select * from dba_free_space where file_id= &AFN
and &CBN between block_id and block_id + blocks -1;
list all corr blocks displaying whether it belongs to segment or free space
col is_used_block for a4
col is_free_space for a4
col file_name for a60
col file# for 999

select bc.file#, bc.block#
, DECODE(
(select de.block_id from dba_extents de where de.file_id = bc.file# and bc.block# between de.block_id and de.block_id + de.blocks -1 )
,null,'NO','YES') is_used_block
, DECODE(
(select dfs.block_id from dba_free_space dfs where dfs.file_id = bc.file# and bc.block# between dfs.block_id and dfs.block_id + dfs.blocks -1)
,null,'NO','YES') is_free_space
,ddf.file_name
from block_corr bc, dba_data_files ddf
where bc.file# = ddf.file_id
order by bc.file#, bc.block#;

step 7. if the blocks belong to indexes or index partitions, then rebuild them using ONLINE option (EE)

--to rebuild indexes and index partitions:
select 'alter index '||t.owner||'.'||t.segment_name||' REBUILD ' ||decode(t.segment_type,'INDEX PARTITION','PARTITION '||t.partition_name,'') || ' ONLINE;' from (
SELECT de.segment_type, de.owner, de.segment_name, de.partition_name
FROM dba_extents de, block_corr bc
WHERE de.file_id = bc.file#
and bc.block# between block_id AND block_id + blocks - 1
) t where t.segment_type IN ('INDEX','INDEX PARTITION')
group by t.owner,t.segment_type,t.segment_name,t.partition_name
/


step 8. Note 782137.1 If the block belongs to a datafile of a tablespace which has been dropped, then V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION is not going to be cleared by a subsequent rman backup. This is fixed in 11g. For 10g the workaround is:
execute dbms_backup_restore.resetCfileSection(17); /** clear v$backup_corruption
execute dbms_backup_restore.resetCfileSection(18); /**clear v$copy_corruption


relevant metalink notes:
How to Find All the Corrupted Objects in Your Database.
V$Database_block_corruption Shows Entries for Non-existent Datafile
RMAN Does not Report a Corrupt Block if it is not Part of Any Segment

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

DDL locks

No way to specify DDL with wait option. It will always fail with "resource busy" error.
In 11g there's a way to do this, but before have to use brute force

declare
success boolean := false;
begin
while ( not success)
loop
begin
execute immediate 'alter table t1 drop column n5 ';
success := true;
exception
when others then
null;
dbms_lock.sleep(10);
end;
end loop;
end;


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