With too many objects in the recyclebin the queries on dba_free_space become really, really slow... fortunately you can always disable the recyclebin option: ALTER SYSTEM SET _recyclebin=FALSE SCOPE=BOTH; Cheers, Dimitre Radoulov On 7/18/05, Sinardy <all_about_oracle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, Do you know what happen if you continuously drop very big objects without bother to purge your bin? Will that hang the system until you purge those old objects or it is work like round robin. regards, Sinardy ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Sharples" <davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx > To: <bobmetelsky@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:52 PM Subject: Re: BIN$ objects (after media recovery) > there are your recycle bin objects - purge recycle bin; to clear them > > > or drop table xxx purge; when you drop it oringially > > On 7/17/05, Bob <bobmetelsky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > win 2000 server - oracle 10.1 - archivelog mode > > > > Ive seen these object names before and research (goggle) suggested they > > were "recovered fragments" > > > > Ive just performed media recovery on a datafile and all objects in that > > datafile now seem to have a corresponding BIN$Xob75zTpRE..... > > name. > > > > What are these BIN$ objects and if they are useless how to get rid of them? > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- ------------------------------ select standard_disclaimer from company_requirements where category = 'MANDATORY';