There are few blocks before segment header in the beginning of first extent which hold ASSM bitmaps (the FIRST/SECOND LEVEL BITMAP BLOCK in block dumps). I've illustrated some things here: http://www.tanelpoder.com/files/Poder_Freelists_vs_ASSM.ppt -- Tanel Poder http://blog.tanelpoder.com On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:18 PM, April Sims <sims@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Please clarify if I am incorrect.....when using dump block, the first few > blocks are header(s)? > Older instructions I have talk about a single header block. > > I didn't see data until block 132. > > Any further clarification would be appreciated. > > thanks > > select dbms_rowid.rowid_relative_fno(rowid) as filenumber, > dbms_rowid.rowid_block_number(rowid) as blocknumber > from tracking; > 2 3 > FILENUMBER BLOCKNUMBER > ---------- ----------- > 4 132 > > select file_id, block_id, segment_name, blocks, tablespace_name from > dba_extents where owner ='TTRACKER' and segment_type='TABLE'; > 2 > FILE_ID BLOCK_ID > ---------- ---------- > SEGMENT_NAME > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > BLOCKS TABLESPACE_NAME > ---------- ------------------------------ > 4 128 > TRACKING > > > >