Hello Anjo, AK> Has any one seen (at least in Oracle10g) that the object# is -2 for certain AK> CR blocks of an object and not the real object or data object number and AK> knows why that is? I saw this blocks in buffer cache, I'm not sure but I can guess that this blocks belongs to the CACHE segment. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Connected to Oracle Database 10g Release 10.1.0.3.0 SQL> select file#, dbablk 2 from x$bh b 3 where obj = 4294967294 4 / FILE# DBABLK ---------- ---------- 1 377 SQL> select segment_name, segment_type, block_id 2 from dba_extents 3 where 1 = file_id and 377 between block_id and block_id+blocks 4 / SEGMENT_NAME SEGMENT_TYPE BLOCK_ID -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ ---------- BOOTSTRAP$ TABLE 377 I_CCOL2 INDEX 369 -- Edgar -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l