Monday, March 25, 2013

How to fix ORA-26040: Data block was loaded using the NOLOGGING option

Today I faced with new ORA error. After solving I want to share this experience with yours.

So, today 5`th datafile of my database was corrupted (/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ulfet_db/example01.dbf).
After recover via RMAN I saw strange error.


RMAN> recover datafile 5 block 443;
Starting recover at 24-MAR-13
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring block(s)
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying block(s) to restore from backup set
restoring blocks of datafile 00005
channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/ULFET_DB/backupset/2013_03_24/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG20130324T223233_8nykp220_.bkp
channel ORA_DISK_1: piece handle=/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/ULFET_DB/backupset/2013_03_24/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG20130324T223233_8nykp220_.bkp tag=TAG20130324T223233
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored block(s) from backup piece 1
channel ORA_DISK_1: block restore complete, elapsed time: 00:00:03

starting media recovery
media recovery complete, elapsed time: 00:00:04
Finished recover at 24-MAR-13
RMAN>



SQL> select count(1) from block_corrupt_test;
select count(1) from block_corrupt_test
                     *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 5, block # 443)
ORA-01110: data file 5: '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ulfet_db/example01.dbf'
ORA-26040: Data block was loaded using the NOLOGGING option


col segment_name format a20
col tablespace_name format a15

SQL> select owner, segment_name, tablespace_name from dba_extents where FILE_ID=5 and 443 between BLOCK_ID and BLOCK_ID+BLOCKS;

OWNER                       SEGMENT_NAME               TABLESPACE_NAME
------------------------ --------------------                  ---------------
SYS                              BLOCK_CORRUPT_TEST   EXAMPLE

Using dbv utility to clarify datafile corruption  

[oracle@localhost ~]$ dbv file=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ulfet_db/example01.dbf

DBVERIFY: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sun Mar 24 22:57:06 2013

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.

DBVERIFY - Verification starting : FILE = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/ulfet_db/example01.dbf

DBV-00201: Block, DBA 20971963, marked corrupt for invalid redo application


DBVERIFY - Verification complete

Total Pages Examined         : 12800
Total Pages Processed (Data) : 6586
Total Pages Failing   (Data) : 0
Total Pages Processed (Index): 1261
Total Pages Failing   (Index): 0
Total Pages Processed (Other): 3251
Total Pages Processed (Seg)  : 0
Total Pages Failing   (Seg)  : 0
Total Pages Empty            : 1702
Total Pages Marked Corrupt   : 1
Total Pages Influx           : 0
Total Pages Encrypted        : 0
Highest block SCN            : 1377097 (0.1377097)
[oracle@localhost ~]$ 

Use below query to get block error and file_name:

SQL> select dbms_utility.data_block_address_block('20971963') block_no,
dbms_utility.data_block_address_file('20971963') file_no
from dual;

  BLOCK_NO    FILE_NO
---------- ----------
       443          5

SQL> 

Now follow up below statements:

Create the repair table (in tablespace where corrupted table resides)

SQL> BEGIN
DBMS_REPAIR.ADMIN_TABLES (
TABLE_NAME => 'REPAIR_TABLE',
TABLE_TYPE => dbms_repair.repair_table,
ACTION => dbms_repair.create_action,
TABLESPACE => 'example');
END;
/  2    3    4    5    6    7    8  

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> 

Identify corrupted blocks:

SQL> set serveroutput on
DECLARE num_corrupt INT;
BEGIN
num_corrupt := 0;
DBMS_REPAIR.CHECK_OBJECT (
SCHEMA_NAME => 'SYS',
OBJECT_NAME => 'BLOCK_CORRUPT_TEST',
REPAIR_TABLE_NAME => 'REPAIR_TABLE',
corrupt_count => num_corrupt);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('number corrupt: ' || TO_CHAR (num_corrupt));
END;
/SQL>   2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11  
number corrupt: 1

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> 


Show corrupted blocks:

SQL> select BLOCK_ID, CORRUPT_TYPE from REPAIR_TABLE;

BLOCK_ID CORRUPT_TYPE
---------- ------------
       443         6148

SQL> 


Mark the identified blocks as corrupted:

SQL> DECLARE num_fix INT;
BEGIN
num_fix := 0;
DBMS_REPAIR.FIX_CORRUPT_BLOCKS (
SCHEMA_NAME => 'SYS',
OBJECT_NAME=> 'BLOCK_CORRUPT_TEST',
OBJECT_TYPE => dbms_repair.table_object,
REPAIR_TABLE_NAME => 'REPAIR_TABLE',
FIX_COUNT=> num_fix);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('num fix: ' || to_char(num_fix));
END;
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PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> 

Allow in the future DML statements to skip the corrupted blocks:

SQL> BEGIN
DBMS_REPAIR.SKIP_CORRUPT_BLOCKS (
SCHEMA_NAME => 'SYS',
OBJECT_NAME => 'BLOCK_CORRUPT_TEST',
OBJECT_TYPE => dbms_repair.table_object,
FLAGS => dbms_repair.SKIP_FLAG);
END;
/  2    3    4    5    6    7    8  

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> 


Now, check table again:

SQL> select count(1) from block_corrupt_test;
COUNT(1)
------------
10


2 comments:

  1. Perhaps I am wrong, but this is more like a workaorund rather than a "fix".

    Another method to approach this would be to drop the object with the bad block, and perhaps even vacate the entire tablespace, drop and recreate it.

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  2. Dear Michael,

    firstly thank you for your comment. Yes, we can drop table and recover entry tablespace which damage table was located (Tablespace Point in Time Recovery). But in this topic I tried to fix corrupted blocks using DBMS_REPAIR package.

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