Hi You could use dbms_stats package also. declare n1 number; begin dbms_stats.convert_raw_value('&&rawvalue', n1); dbms_output.put_line (n1); end; / SQL> / old 4: dbms_stats.convert_raw_value('&&rawvalue', n1); new 4: dbms_stats.convert_raw_value('c24a46', n1); 7369 Thanks Riyaj "Re-yas" Shamsudeen ERP Financials DBA, New AT&T ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefan Knecht Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:10 AM To: ax.mount@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: Convert block dump data (data type number) Hi Alex Check this post by Jonathan: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/number_format.html Cheers Stefan On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:36 PM, amonte <ax.mount@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi I have dumped a block and trying to see the data it contains, for the varchar2 it's quite simple we simply convert hex to ascii but for number I cant find a suitable way, does anyone know how to convert this data? select dbms_rowid.rowid_to_absolute_fno(rowid, 'SCOTT', 'EMP') ABS_FNO, dbms_rowid.rowid_relative_fno(rowid) REL_FNO, dbms_rowid.rowid_block_number(rowid) BLOCKNO, dbms_rowid.rowid_row_number(rowid) ROWNO, empno, ename from emp where empno = 7369 ABS_FNO REL_FNO BLOCKNO ROWNO EMPNO ENAME ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- 8 8 10 0 7369 SMITH so I dump block 10 and check for row 0 and got this: tab 0, row 0, @0xb94 tl: 38 fb: --H-FL-- lb: 0x0 cc: 8 col 0: [ 3] c2 4a 46 --> EMPNO col 1: [ 5] 53 4d 49 54 48 --> ENAME col 2: [ 5] 43 4c 45 52 4b col 3: [ 3] c2 50 03 col 4: [ 7] 77 b4 0c 11 01 01 01 col 5: [ 2] c2 09 col 6: *NULL* col 7: [ 2] c1 15 so converting 53 4d 49 54 48 to ascii we got SMITH but to get the EMPNO (7369) using c2 4a 46 ? TIA Alex -- ========================= Stefan P Knecht Senior Consultant Infrastructure Managed Services Trivadis AG Europa-Strasse 5 CH-8152 Glattbrugg Phone +41-44-808 70 20 Fax +41-808 70 12 Mobile +41-79-571 36 27 stefan.knecht@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.trivadis.com OCP 9i/10g SCSA SCNA =========================