Yes, thanks all. It is 2 bytes per row for row directory that made up for most of the missing space. rm. On 9/2/05, Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ranko > > >Where is the rest ? > > It depends... some possibilities are... > > First. From the 8 blocks you should remove the header blocks (i.e. header > block, free list blocks, ASSM header blocks and extent map blocks). If you > use free list management at least 1. If you use ASSM at least 3. > > Second. If you have deleted rows, more than PCTFREE free space is > available in the blocks. > > Third. If you have multiple free lists or ASSM *and* you didn't insert the > data with a single session, the inserts were probably spread over many > blocks. Therefore the blocks are not full. > > Forth. Each block contains, for its internal management, different > structures. You should remove at least 100-150 bytes per block. If you > specified many ITLs this can be much more... > > Fifth. I don't remember right now... but there are for sure other > possibilities ;-) > > > HTH > Chris > > New Features Oracle Database 10g Release 2 seminars @ > www.trivadis.com<http://www.trivadis.com> > Italiano: Lugano (24-Nov) > Français: Genève (17-Nov) > Deutsch: Zürich (11-Oct), Hamburg (13-Oct), München (20-Oct), Basel > (25-Oct), > Frankfurt (27-Oct), Bern (8-Nov), Düsseldorf (23-Nov), Stuttgart (13-Dec) >