Interesting Tim and potentially very evil... ;-), but what I need is a SQL statement that generates an ORA-0600... Need to test certain things that I can't talk about... RF --- Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: --------------------------------- Robert, Well, one sure-fire way I know is to type in "oracle" at the UNIXcommand-prompt and just hit "return" -- you get a nice little,serious-looking ORA-00600 [12235] message in your "alert.log" file.�This has been true since Oracle v6, at least.� In some situations, youalso get a nice ".trc" file to go with it... However, I also know it's a sure-fire way to excite any DBAs who haveautomated monitoring of their "alert.log" files and trace files, so becareful about doing this from an inter-personal perspective... ;-)�...especially if they get paged on such errors and you're doing thisexperimentation at 3am... :-) ...please don't ask how I would know that? Tim Gormanconsultant - Evergreen Database Technologies, Inc.P.O. Box 1802, Evergreen CO 80437-1802website = http://www.evdbt.comemail = tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx = +1-303-885-4526fax = +1-303-484-3608 Robert Freeman wrote: Hi folks.... � Might sound like a silly question, but I'mlooking for some SQL statements (the more basic the better) in 10gR2that will cause an ORA-0600 error. If you have one and an associatedtest case that you could sent that would be great. You can send to medirect mail rather than through the newsgroup, robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxxx � RF � Robert G. Freeman Oracle Consultant/DBA/Author Principal Engineer/Team Manager The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Father of Five, Husband of One, Author of various geeky computer titles from Osborne/McGraw Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 11g New Features Now Available for Pre-sales onAmazon.com! Sig V1.1 � Robert G. Freeman Author: Now Available for Pre-Sales on Amazon.com!!!! ************************************************** Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) ************************************************** Portable DBA: Oracle (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) Oracle9i New Features (Oracle Press) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l