I tried to highlight the HWM DBA's in my mail, but seems that listserver strips HTML codes off the messages? Anyway, in the example in concentrated on "Highwater:" which was 0x00406d72 in first example, but was reset to 0x00406d22 after truncate with reuse storage. I'm sure you get it right anyway, I just didn't understand the "top of allocated space part" :) Tanel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Powell, Mark D" <mark.powell@xxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 7:31 PM Subject: RE: Question re: TRUNCATE ... REUSE STORAGE > Tanel your example shows that the that keep storage retained all 87 > allocated blocks while drop storage kept only the first allocated = > extent > which is what I said, so I guess you just objecting to my reference to = > "top > of allocated space" which is getting just a little bit technical. I = > would > hope the average reader would understand that means the HWM is reset to = > look > like the table has just been allocated, i.e., no data. > > HTH -- Mark D Powell -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------