Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options SQL> drop table t; Table dropped. SQL> SQL> create table t 2 nologging 3 compress 4 pctfree 0 5 as 6 select 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP' col1 7 from dual 8 connect by level <= 10000 9 / Table created. SQL> commit 2 / Commit complete. SQL> SQL> select blocks 2 from user_segments 3 where segment_name = 'T' and 4 segment_type = 'TABLE' 5 / BLOCKS ---------- 16 SQL> SQL> update t 2 set col1 = col1 3 / 10000 rows updated. SQL> commit 2 / Commit complete. SQL> SQL> select blocks 2 from user_segments 3 where segment_name = 'T' and 4 segment_type = 'TABLE' 5 / BLOCKS ---------- 80