Hi Tanel , Thanks a lot for your reply. I started this thread to investigate the following error in our v7.3.4 PROD database alert log. ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [12700], [537037017], [5], [], [], [], [], [] Metalink doc says that the second argument is the data block address. We don't have the packages you said on our PROD database. And SELECT SEGMENT_NAME, SEGMENT_TYPE, OWNER FROM SYS.DBA_EXTENTS WHERE 537037017 BETWEEN BLOCK_ID AND BLOCK_ID + BLOCKS - 1; This did not give me any result. My doubt is whether we can put the data block address ( 537037017) in the above query !!! Is that right ? I also tried the following in another database which has got the packages you said : (is it okay to execute the below on any database which has got those packages or is it to be done on the problem database only) sys.dbms_utility.data_block_address_block(537037017) = 166105 sys.dbms_utility.data_block_address_file(537037017) = 128 With the above results , on the PROD database i tried : SELECT SEGMENT_NAME, SEGMENT_TYPE, OWNER FROM SYS.DBA_EXTENTS WHERE FILE_ID = 128 AND 166105 BETWEEN BLOCK_ID AND BLOCK_ID + BLOCKS - 1; which gave me no results. Is there any other way i can find out the file_id / object# from the above ORA-600 error. The trace file too did not give me any pointer about the file# or object# . This being the case, how do i find which is the object in problem ? Can you help me on this ? Thanks and Regards, Prem J. Tanel Wrote : >>Hi, >>In newer versions, there are two functions under dbms_utility.data_block_address_block >>and data_block_address_file.dbms_utility.make_data_block_address works the other way >too. If 7.3.4 doesn't have those functions, you could just use a newer db version for >>doing the calculations. >>Tanel. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l