Types of corruption in Oracle and how to avoid them

Corruption in Oracle mostly occurs in data block on hard disk or in memory. It is easy to handle memory corruption using Oracle Kernel detection mechanism and to handle block corruption Oracle provides various methods. A data block is said to be corrupted when it is not in proper format. Block corruption can damage a single block or your whole database which can lead to loss of data. The most common reasons behind block corruption are creepy hardware, OS bug or faulty disk.