All, I finally turned ASM on in my 9.2 database. The tablespaces were created with no defaults - no uniform extent sizes. Oracle created the tables all with 1M extent size. When loading a table, I notice that the first 64 extents were all 1M in size. The last 9 extents are all 8M in size. So, is this how ASM works? Just curious if anyone else has had similar or different experiences? Thomas Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l