In addition to what other posters have said, you can find the original names of the objects in the views user_recyclebin dba_recyclebin Nice thing about recyclebin : you can recover dropped objects until the recycle bin is emptied (purged). Also be aware that not all segments in the recylebin have names starting with BIN$ (e.g. lob partitions - see Example 1) and that in some cases, an object in the recycle bin can cause errors when trying to create a new object with the same name (e.g. lob index name - see Example 2). ----------------- Example 1 : lob partition names do not change when object is in the recycle bin SQL> create table kubrick (n number, d date, c clob) 2 partition by range (n) 3 (partition kubrick_p1 values less than (maxvalue)) ; Table created. SQL> select segment_name, segment_type from user_segments order by 1 ; SEGMENT_NAME SEGMENT_TYPE ------------------------------ ------------------ KUBRICK TABLE PARTITION SYS_IL0000108833C00003$$ INDEX PARTITION SYS_LOB0000108833C00003$$ LOB PARTITION SQL> drop table kubrick ; Table dropped. SQL> select object_name, original_name from user_recyclebin ; OBJECT_NAME ORIGINAL_NAME ------------------------------ -------------------------------- SYS_IL0000108833C00003$$ SYS_IL0000108833C00003$$ SYS_IL0000108833C00003$$ SYS_IL0000108833C00003$$ SYS_LOB0000108833C00003$$ SYS_LOB0000108833C00003$$ SYS_LOB0000108833C00003$$ SYS_LOB0000108833C00003$$ BIN$IBvdtO4bKWbgRAADuhO6Yw==$0 KUBRICK BIN$IBvdtO4bKWbgRAADuhO6Yw==$0 KUBRICK 6 rows selected. SQL> ----------------- Example 2 - if a NAMED lob index is in the recycle bin, it will prevent creation of a new object trying to reuse the lob index name, until the old object is purged from the recyclebin SQL> create table t (n number, c clob) 2 lob (c) store as t_c_lob (index t_c_lobidx) ; SQL> select segment_name, segment_type from user_segments 2 where segment_name in ('T', 'T_C_LOB', 'T_C_LOBIDX') SEGMENT_NAME SEGMENT_TYPE -------------------- ------------------ T TABLE T_C_LOB LOBSEGMENT T_C_LOBIDX LOBINDEX SQL> drop table t ; Table dropped. SQL> select object_name, original_name from user_recyclebin ; OBJECT_NAME ORIGINAL_NAME ------------------------------ -------------------------------- T_C_LOBIDX T_C_LOBIDX BIN$IBvdtO4QKWbgRAADuhO6Yw==$0 T_C_LOB BIN$IBvdtO4RKWbgRAADuhO6Yw==$0 T SQL> create table t (n number, c clob) 2 lob (c) store as t_c_lob (index t_c_lobidx) ; lob (c) store as t_c_lob (index t_c_lobidx) * ERROR at line 2: ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object SQL> purge table t ; Table purged. SQL> create table t (n number, c clob) 2 lob (c) store as t_c_lob (index t_c_lobidx) ; Table created. _____________________________________________ De la part deJohn Dunn I seem to have a large number of objects in my schema(Oracle 10 on Linux) with names beginning BIN$ e.g. BIN$IBQisbCMbGfgQAUKRQFY4g==$0 Anyone know what they are and how they were created?