On my little test database the issues seems to be that dba_segments shows segments in the recycle bin (BIN$ segment names) but dba_extents doesn't. This little test just shows for table type segments which were the one segment type with the most difference in my database. Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options SQL> select segment_name, sum(bytes) from dba_segments 2 where segment_type='TABLE' group by segment_name 3 minus 4 select segment_name, sum(bytes) from dba_extents 5 where segment_type='TABLE' group by segment_name 6 / SEGMENT_NAME SUM(BYTES) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- --------------- BIN$/3CMRcOqT02P1xIJLb19Ng==$0 65536 BIN$/Xwbg4BFT1y9TIkhXUZd5Q==$0 65536 BIN$2sKa4lyTSE6apkmjIa7x8w==$0 65536 BIN$6RYZ9onvR523E6fhLcyeGg==$0 65536 BIN$ATwCYw1hQY660ges9Ryvqg==$0 65536 <more rows here> ----------------------- Ric Van Dyke Hotsos Enterprises ----------------------- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:34 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: dba_extents and dba_segments Hi all: I am very confused by the following 2 SQLs which I have ran against oracle 10.2.0.3. I have been under impression that dba_Extents is a rollup of the dba_extents and therefore these two SQLs should return the same results. This however does not seem to be the case. Does anyone know what is the reason for this? SQL> select sum(bytes/1024)/1024 from dba_extents where tablespace_name = 'CCS_X_017'; SUM(BYTES/1024)/1024 -------------------- 22200 1* select sum(bytes/1024)/1024 from dba_segments where tablespace_name = 'CCS_X_017' SQL> / SUM(BYTES/1024)/1024 -------------------- 2400 thank you Gene Gurevich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l