Defrag for datafiles needed

Hi,

I have the following problem (Oracle 8.1.6.0.3 on Solaris): I have an application that once a night import up to 5 million entries using sqlldr with option direct=true. I set the file to autoextend=true. The data is reduced and afterwards deleted (using delete from where date < ... not truncate). The datafile keeps growing as direct=true seems to ignore free blocks and appends for performance reasons. Is there a way besides exporting, dropping and importing the whole database to keep the datafiles to a minimum?

Konstantin

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