I remember seeing this a few versions back (8i?). I tracked that down to a datafile resize (think I found the ALTER command in the alert log) on the autoextensible file. Henry -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 3:37 PM To: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Curious DBA_DATA_FILES results Oracle 9.2.0.6 <http://9.2.0.6> on Windows 2003. Interesting results from a query for which I would expect to see '0 rows returned'. There are 2 datafiles for which the autoallocate value of MAXBYTES is less than the actual size of the file, possibly via a resize I imagine. Anyone else seen this? A bug perhaps? 12:36:33 ORAGLDB - js001292@pr09 SQL> l 1 select file_name, bytes, maxbytes 2 from dba_data_files 3* where bytes > maxbytes 12:36:52 ORAGLDB - js001292@pr09 SQL> / MAX BYTES BYTES FILE_NAME MEG MEG -------------------------------------------------- ---------------- ---------------- D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\ORCL\USERS01ORCL.ORA 2,506,096,640 104,857,600 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\ORCL\INDX01ORCL.ORA 524,288,000 104,857,600 ---------------- sum 3,030,384,640 2 rows selected. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l