Re: Determining table size

You can use the DBMS_SPACE package. More specifically, try the DBMS_SPACE.UNUSED_SPACE procedure. It will tell you how much space is allocated and how much of that has really been used.

HTH,
Brian

Bhavin Shah wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After a user creates a table, how do you tell how much space (bytes) the
> table is occupying? I tried looking at the user_tables, but the fields
> like blocks are blank. Thanks in advance.
>
> Btw, it's on Oracle 8.1.6 Linux if that makes a difference.
>
> Bhavin
 

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