Sanjay That's what the segment advisor is designed for! I'm going to quote directly from the relevant manual because I agree 100% with it. If you receive a space management alert, or if you decide that you want to > reclaim space, you should start with the Segment Advisor. > To use the Segment Advisor: > Check the results of the Automatic Segment Advisor. > To understand the Automatic Segment Advisor, see "Automatic Segment > Advisor"<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14231/schema.htm#CBBDDBJH>, > later in this section. For details on how to view results, see "Viewing > Segment Advisor > Results"<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14231/schema.htm#CBBJHIGH> > . > (Optional) Obtain updated results on individual segments by rerunning the > Segment Advisor manually. > See "Running the Segment Advisor > Manually"<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14231/schema.htm#CBBBJFGC>, > later in this section. On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Sanjay Mishra <smishra_97@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > I am trying to check as the best way to find out the actual space used by > table removing any fragmentation in it. I had few partitioned table in 3 > digit like one of the table was 150G. I used redefinition package and it > becomes 70G. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l