Thank you That makes sense now as the autotrace stats display only 1 consistent get as there is only one block(root block IS the leaf block) in the index as you indicated. select last_name from test5 where last_name = 'rick'; Statistics ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 recursive calls 0 db block gets 1 consistent gets 0 physical reads 0 redo size 333 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client 513 bytes received via SQL*Net from client 1 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client 0 sorts (memory) 0 sorts (disk) 0 rows processed Thanks, Paul From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan Lewis Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:45 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Index - Blevel No, it means the root block IS the leaf block. There's only one block in the index; add a few more (indexable) rows to the table and the block will split, and become a root block with two leaf blocks below it. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com @jloracle _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Paul Harrison [cure@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 24 February 2015 16:02 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Index - Blevel Hi ALL, BLEVEL has a value of 0 and LEAF_BLOCKS has a value of 1. Does this mean the index consists of the root block and 1 leaf block? The blevel doesn't include the root block in its value? SQL> select index_name,blevel,leaf_blocks 2 from dba_indexes 3 where owner=user 4 and index_name like '%TEST5_LAST_NAME_IDX%' 5 / INDEX_NAME BLEVEL LEAF_BLOCKS ------------------------------ ---------- ----------- TEST5_LAST_NAME_IDX 0 1 Thanks, Paul