High availability of business-critical information is a key concern for all medium and large-scale enterprises. This information usually consists of company-sensitive data, application data, customer relationships, etc. Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture (MMA) is specially designed to safeguard your crucial information and mitigate potential risks of database outages. Despite these best practices, users face crippling data loss due to intermittent cases of Oracle block corruptions. These often result from various software and hardware defects, causing damage to your database contents or the file header. To easily work around these problems and prevent data loss in such situations, you should perform Oracle recovery through advanced third-party software.