from experience... the easiest way to get out of doing stupid stuff like this is to send an email 'tried it test, got this error: ora-600 [<add a bunch of letters] looked it up on support. this is a known bug. its not fixed until 12c, release 2. (add the release 2 in case they want to upgrade when 12c is out this fall to get this to work). -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l