I'm trying to come up with some sizing figures to help predict future space needs. Unfortunately, I've found that I get inconsistent results across DBA_DATA_FILES, DBA_FREE_SPACE, DBA_SEGMENTS, and DBA_EXTENTS. For two tablespaces, taking DBA_DATA_FILES minus DBA_FREE_SPACE I get 2041.16GB for used space. DBA_EXTENTS says 2017.98GB and DBA_SEGMENTS says 1984.18GB (see queries at end of email). Shouldn't they all match? I saw a previous thread from last year on bug 4142932 where extent counts may not match in certain situations. If that's the case, which views should I use to get the real information? This is all on Oracle 9.2.0.6. BTW, I did compare DBA_SEGMENTS with DBA_EXTENTS and found 14 segments whose size was listed as different, accounting for the missing 33.8GB in DBA_SEGMENTS. SELECT alloc_gb - free_gb used_gb FROM (SELECT (SELECT SUM(bytes) / 1073741824 FROM dba_data_files WHERE tablespace_name IN ('ATOMIC_TBS','PUBLISHED_TBS')) alloc_gb , (SELECT SUM(bytes) / 1073741824 FROM dba_free_space WHERE tablespace_name IN ('ATOMIC_TBS','PUBLISHED_TBS')) free_gb FROM dual); USED_GB -------------------- 2041.162109375 SELECT SUM(bytes) / 1073741824 gb_from_dba_extents FROM dba_extents WHERE tablespace_name IN ('ATOMIC_TBS','PUBLISHED_TBS'); GB_FROM_DBA_EXTENTS ------------------- 2017.9765625 SELECT SUM(bytes) / 1073741824 gb_from_dba_segments FROM dba_segments WHERE tablespace_name IN ('ATOMIC_TBS','PUBLISHED_TBS'); GB_FROM_DBA_SEGMENTS -------------------- 1984.17578125 Dave ------------------------------------- Dave Herring, DBA Acxiom Corporation 3333 Finley Downers Grove, IL 60515 wk: 630.944.4762 <mailto:dherri@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dherri@xxxxxxxxxx> > ------------------------------------- ************************************************************************* The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank you. *************************************************************************