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Re: ORA-600

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:48:53 -0700
Message-ID: <bf46380610021448s7be537dvaed35defc8bdcd6d@mail.gmail.com>


On 10/2/06, Susan White <swhite_at_lifetouch.com> wrote:
>
> We have an 8.1.6 database running on Linux. One of the tables contains
> two blob columns. About 3 weeks ago, one of the admins decided to do
> maintenance on the blob columns by reinitializing those he determined had no
> data. At this point, the database started throwing ORA-600 errors and
> writing frequently to an smon trace file. We don't normally support this
> database, so I just heard about it today.
>

I'm curious about a couple things:

  1. Howd did the admin detemine that the blob 'had no data'?
  2. What exactly is 'reinitialize'?
-- 
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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