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Sat, 16 August 2008 23:50

sabbir_ru
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Registered: August 2008

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I wanna know the size of a table from

select sum(bytes) from dba_segments where segment_name='table_name'

but the result is confusing.... the output is like 500MB but the actual size is about 4GB when i took a dump of that table.

Sat, 16 August 2008 23:52

BlackSwan
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Sat, 16 August 2008 23:57

tanmoy1048
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Registered: June 2007

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May be the table has a column of LOB type.
I got a solution here...
http://sadatdba.blogspot.com/2008/08/size-of-table-including-lob-segment.html

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