Lyndon - Sorry to hear of your problems. Never a good time for this, but especially right before the holidays. I have been working with Oracle for over 10 years at a number of sites and have only encountered a handful of corrupted blocks. Oracle strives hard to maintain a reputation of protecting data. However, as Lisa points out, hardware can cause problems. You should suggest to your management that they sign you up for the Oracle Education Backup and Recovery. This class discusses quite a few methods to detect corruption and methods to reduce your vulnerability to corruption.
Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 12:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L connecti The reason I ask is because people around me always blame Oracle when things stop working. Anyways, the problem was traced to a corrupted Oracle database (as to whether the tables or the data file got corrupted. how and why - a $$$ consultant is trying to find out). How could an Oracle database get corruppted in the first place? Anyone here with an experience of their Oracle database getting corrupted and what caused it and what was done to fix it? -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Lyndon > I would look at the wait statistics to see what is happening inside > Oracle. I would also look at the O.S. performance statistics to see what is > happening underneath Oracle. Don't make any rash assumptions. Also, are any > error messages or trace files generated? > For me the funny story was a misunderstanding of the Unix "nice" value > for an unfamiliar platform. Long story short, we wound up with batch > running > at a higher priority than interactive users. New users were shut out. > Dennis Williams > DBA, 40%OCP > Lifetouch, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:45 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > connections > > > Hello, > > Just in time for the Holidays. Oracle stops accepting connections. > > I am wondering if people here can give me their horror stories when Oracle > stops > accepting new connections or stops accepting connections altogether? > Scalability > problems when you've got around 5,000 concurrent connections? MTS/Shared > server > configurations enabled or disabled? > > It could be an Oracle problem or the application that's trying to connect's > fault. > > Any tips and insights into what caused your horror story and how it was > fixed. > Thanks. > > Have a Happy Holidays everybody. > > -- > Lyndon Tiu > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Lyndon Tiu > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Lyndon Tiu INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
