Hi all, whats wrong with this? I expect to see what event that I have. SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production on Mon Jul 11 15:25:24 2005 Copyright (c) 1982, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options SQL> ALTER system SET EVENTS='10938 TRACE NAME CONTEXT LEVEL 12'; System altered. SQL> set serverout on SQL> declare 2 l_event number; 3 begin 4 sys.dbms_system.read_ev( 10938, l_event ); 5 dbms_output.put_line( '0 = FALSE, 1 = TRUE, and your result is ' || l_event ); 6 end; 7 / 0 = FALSE, 1 = TRUE, and your result is 0 PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL> Regards, Sinardy -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l