Tom, Does it work from sqlplus on your server? If not, it might be a dictionary corruption (yek). Otherwise you can hopefully try with an older client. Stephane Faroult RoughSea Ltd <http://www.roughsea.com> Konagora <http://www.konagora.com> RoughSea Channel on Youtube <http://www.youtube.com/user/roughsealtd> On 03/03/2011 10:05 PM, Thomas Day wrote: > CREATE TABLE DUMMY1(BOB VARCHAR2(2)) > * > ERROR at line 1: > ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 > ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: NULL index table key value > ORA-06512: at line 22 > > Unfortunately I'm new at this position and they haven't gotten around > to to giving me the CS number for a metalink account. Maybe this will > light a fire. > > Anyway, can anyone shed any light on this behavior. It's 10.2.0.4.0 > on Windows server 2003. My client is the Oracle 11g on Windows 7. >