Re: HELP URGENT CORRUPTED DATA

If you restore your database to a point in time in the past than transactional integrity is preserved. However, your application should be done in such a ways that business transaction is done as database transaction. This was the change is atomic. If your business transaction is done so that you have 10 commits for one business transaction than you might have got restored to the middle of this business transaction. Such inconsistencies shoule be than handled by application otherwise it's a design flaw. Often these might be bastches that are commiting work every so many records. For example, your purge batch might have purged half of your tables and introduced inconsistency.

Also you didn't really say what exactly wrong with it and how you see the problem from application point of view - some query returns wrong result? Or it's just users see "something" wrong and you can't identify what's that. If the latter, than I would suggest to narrow down the area.

Regarding point A - it's possible that index can be corrupted and you are correct in the way to detect it. Fix is to rebuild the index. Btw, PiT recovery should not cause index corruption becasue it's updated as part of the transaction and PiT recovery doesn't leave non-commited transactions on the half way.

Point B - I am not sure about your question. Do you mean string comparison?

Good luck!

2006/5/19, Paula Stankus <paulastankus_at_yahoo.com>:
>
> Guys,
>
> We recovered a database, did a dbverify - everything looked good, exports
> are working fine. However, we recovered to an earlier point (few hours
> earlier) and on the "earlier" database we have no errors in a specific
> function of the application in the "later" one we have errors. We have been
> beating our hands against the brick wall doing comparisons of the data - the
> comparisons - table by table, column by column look okay. We have been
> working on this issue round-the-clock for days.
>
> Questions:
>
> A-Can an index be somehow causing this problem and can we use validate
> structure or something to be sure of the validity of the index? - analyze
> table validate structure...cascade...
>
> B-Can there be missing characters (characters we cannot visually see)
> causing the problem and can a "MINUS" find it if there is? :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paula
>
>
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