Les: Sorry you have to buy that as that is the truth. All the documentations and references you mention are wrong. Sorry I am at home now and I don't have a database to demonstrate that. It is very simple to test. Just create a table and dump few blocks. You will see 2 ITLs ( It will be visible in block dump, if you have difficulties in reading blockdump just grep for 'itc' in the trace file. This will show the ITL count. > > And I guess ALL of Oracle's Documentation is wrong......Training courses > both 9.0 and 9.2, The Online documentation for create table which > contains THIS: > > If you omit this clause, then Oracle uses the following default values: > > PCTFREE: 10 > PCTUSED: 40 > INITRANS: 1 > MAXTRANS: Depends on data block size > > AND the Oracle Press Oracle 9i DBA Handbook on page 881 under create > table.... > > You're telling me that ALL of that documentation PLUS the actual results > of a select statement are wrong. > > Not buying it. -- Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Co-Author: Oracle Wait Interface, Oracle Press 2004 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/007222729X/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l