Hi guys! Setting Event 10499 to revert to the earlier behavior of NUMBER datatypes that have no explicit setting of their scale value was no expected effect on my Oracle database. What i´m doing wrong? I included: event="10499 trace name context forever, level 10" in the init<sid>.ora and created the spfile. Then, shutdown and startup. Nothing happens. The new behavior still remains the same. Any help ? -- ------------------------------ Gilberto Gampert Supervisor Desenv. de Sistemas Divisão de TI - UPF -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.6 - Release Date: 30/03/2005 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l