I"m a little confused as to what your question is. Isn't it enough to use USER_SEGMENTS based on segment_name and partition_name?? Bradd Piontek "Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is in having someone else do a first-class job under your direction." -- William Feather On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > We partitions by day and by month depending on the table. All of our > partitions have names of the form > > PART_YYYYMMDD or PART_YYYYMM > > I am trying to calculate sizing estimates/day and by month (so they can > stay ahead of adding storage). > > since all my partitions have the same name, user_segments is not useful. > for data I was using using_tab_partitions and taking blocks*blocksize to > get the size/day. > > I see "leaf blocks" in user ind_partitions. Not sure if that is enough > blocks to get a good estimate per day. Note that 1 partition is one day or 1 > month. > > any suggestions ? >