This is not a joke, it really occurred. Tue Oct 19 22:40:19 2004 Errors in file /opt/oracle/admin/fred/bdump/fred_ora_30002.trc: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [12235], [], [], [], [], [], [], [] and this is the corresponding doc in metalink via the ORA-600 Lookup tool: Doc ID: Note:33174.1 Subject: ORA-600 [12235] "Oracle process has no purpose in life !" Now, I can understand it heckling me, that I have no purpose in life ... but an Oracle process? perplexed and confused. Al Frankenstein -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l