Hi everybody: Thank you for your responses. I will take a look at the documents that you referred me to. I was under impression that others have surely stumbled upon this and therefore decided not to put any examples into my Email. However, here is what I see: SQL> select sum(bytes/1024)/1024 from dba_Segments where tablespace_name= 'PCM_D_01'; SUM(BYTES/1024)/1024 -------------------- 696300 SQL> ch /Segments/extents 1* select sum(bytes/1024)/1024 from dba_extents where tablespace_name= 'PCM_D_01' SQL> / SUM(BYTES/1024)/1024 -------------------- 471100 As you see the difference is quite significant and the only change in my SQL was going from dba_segments to dba_extents. The tablespace is a LMTS with uniform extens. The max number of extents in a single segment is 441. thank you Gene Gurevich Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l