Comments on: ORA-1410 Invalid ROWID Mystery http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/ora-1410-invalid-rowid-mystery/ Miscellaneous Random Oracle Topics: Stop, Think, ... Understand Mon, 13 May 2013 14:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Charles Hooper http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/ora-1410-invalid-rowid-mystery/#comment-1332 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:54:45 +0000 http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/?p=2581#comment-1332 This might be related, and maybe explains why the database had to be bounced:
In the second comment in this thread I mentioned the following:
http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/how-much-space-is-required-to-store-a-whole-lot-of-nothing/
“Dropping and recreating the table put the table into the same set of blocks. Oddly, it seemed that I had to drop/purge the table, bounce the database, and then recreate the table so that the trace file showed the correct information – if I did not bounce the database I saw the block information from the dropped/purged table.)”

In the above article I was attempting to dump the contents of a block when my session was the only user session connected. It almost appeared as though Oracle was reproducing information from a dropped and purged table when asked to perform a database block dump – that phantom information disappeared when the database was bounced. One might wonder if Oracle was still “seeing” the index information in the blocks that had been used by the table’s index, and was throwing the invalid ROWID error due to seeing that information in the blocks.

Just a thought…

]]> By: Roberto http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/ora-1410-invalid-rowid-mystery/#comment-1329 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:20:54 +0000 http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/?p=2581#comment-1329 Server bounced? The problem was windowZ ;-)

]]> By: Charles Hooper http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/ora-1410-invalid-rowid-mystery/#comment-1328 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:42:55 +0000 http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/?p=2581#comment-1328 To help you get started, a couple of links:
http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/index-rebuild/
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=630559
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=696740
http://dbaforums.org/oracle/index.php?showtopic=9805
http://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Tracing-invalid-rowid-ora01410,13
http://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Tracing-an-ORA01410-error,6

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