From: "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus@sybrandb.demon.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: An ORA-00600 error, and what went wrong.
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:55:32 +0200
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Ora-600 means 'Call Support'

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Jeremy Goldberg" <jgoldberg@dial-remove.pipex-this.com-first> wrote in
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> Hi -
>
> During a batch processing operation, I got this:
>
> Insert failed: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [4097], [], [],
> [], [], [], [], []
>
> (Under Solaris Sparc 2.6).
>
> I couldn't affect the table it was trying to insert into, and I couldn't
> truncate it, so I simply dropped and recreated it and regenerated the data
> (fortunately, it was just 'base' data for further processing). So far, the
> error hasn't reappeared.
>
> Can anyone here tell me:
>
> 1) Was this just 'one of those things', or something I've done to bring
 this
> about?
> 2) What _was_ the problem?
> 3) Was dropping the table and recreating a really stupid thing to do,
> leaving the problem as a timebomb further down the line?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> - Jeremy Goldberg
>
>
>