SQL> oradebug peek 0x2F8EA34 16 [2F8EA34, 2F8EA44) = 78797A00 4546494C 455F4944 454E5449 SQL> oradebug setospid 5701 Oracle pid: 13, Unix process pid: 5701, image: oracle@dbvrfy1 (TNS V1-V3) SQL> oradebug poke 0x2F8EA34 3 'XYZ' ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected SQL> oradebug poke 0x2F8EA34 1 88 BEFORE: [2F8EA34, 2F8EA38) = 29004C53 AFTER: [2F8EA34, 2F8EA38) = 58004C53 SQL> !ls -lt | head total 120890 -rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 99488 Jan 24 03:13 ectest9i_ora_5632_xyz.trc -rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 100017 Jan 24 03:11 ectest9i_ora_5632_ABCEFG.trc -rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 754 Jan 7 16:26 ectest9i_ora_9802.trc -rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 754 Jan 6 18:55 ectest9i_ora_2943.trc -rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 822 Jan 5 23:50 ectest9i_ora_27148.trc -rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 0 Jan 5 23:47 ectest9i_ora_26854.trc -rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 1845 Nov 17 17:00 ectest9i_ora_7881.trc -rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 756 Oct 21 22:26 ectest9i_ora_18192.trc -rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 1826 Oct 10 20:56 ectest9i_ora_8057.trc SQL> oradebug dump global_area 1 Statement processed. SQL> !