Intermittent block corruption in Oracle database
Hi,
One of our production 8i (8.1.7.0.0, I know the version is historic but its present due to some constraint) database is facing intermittent block corruption.
It reported block corruption in one of the datafile -
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Corrupt block relative dba: 0x05413055 (file 21, block 77909)
Bad header found during buffer read
Data in bad block -
type: 6 format: 2 rdba: 0x05413052
last change scn: 0x002f.a122d9dc seq: 0x1 flg: 0x02
consistency value in tail: 0xd9dc0601
check value in block header: 0x0, block checksum disabled
spare1: 0x0, spare2: 0x0, spare3: 0x0
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Reread of rdba: 0x05413055 (file 21, block 77909) found same corrupted data
When we tried running DBVERIFY utility -