RE: odd error

Michael

>Thanks, I tried MetaLink, but it just tells me that there is a problem. I
>am not a DBA, just a lowly user. My DBA had already opened a TAR with
>support. The plan is to apply a security patch and a patch for this error
>sometime in February. Maybe I just haven't figured out how to use MetaLink
>properly.

The link I sent you is meant to lookup known problems. Sometimes there are workaround, sometimes not. No idea what it says in your case...

>This query was so darn simple that I am still amazed that it could cause
>an error.

To hit a bug you don't need a complex query. Once, in 9iR1, I hit one with a "simple" select on DUAL...

Regards,
Chris

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