Sql-server – Support to SQL Server 2000 from Visual Studio 2013(SQL Server 2012)

When you delete from heaps, allocated space may not be unallocated unless you use a table lock. See "Deleting Rows from a Heap" from DELETE on MSDN

This is a separate problem to fragmentation (which happens of course)

Just in case, have you tried this to update usage info?

EXEC sp_spaceused 'MySchema.MyTable', 'true'

With no indexes or keys, you can't defragment it normally.
You can add/drop a clustered index, or do something like this

SELECT * INTO [MySchema].[MyTableNew] 
FROM [MySchema].[MyTable]
-- ORDER BY something

-- if you like
EXEC sp_spaceused 'MySchema.MyTableNew', 'true'

DROP TABLE [MySchema].[MyTable];

EXEC sp_rename 'MySchema.MyTableNew', 'MyTable';

oops: just seen updates, my Internets has been broken on and off...

linked server is Oracle, the first thing that I tried was to check if the Server hosting the SQL Server instance, was able to connect to the listener on the Oracle Database Server using tnsping.

tnsping searched to the path C:\product\11.1.0\db_1\bin initially, this will initially use the used parameter file C:\product\11.1.0\db_1\network\admin\sqlnet.ora

tnsping successfully connected to the Oracle database from the SQL Server box. Then check the Provider details while creating the Linked Server.

The Linked Server provider was Oracle Provider for OLE DB. This is the driver that gets installed along with the Oracle Client Components.

Error 7302 can be a result of MSDAORA.dll not being registered correctly. In this case it had to be an issue with the dll related to Oracle Provider for OLE DB i.e.OraOleDB.dll. Before checking the dll related issues,to check if something was missing in the registry. The list of Providers in the Linked Server is populated from the Providers key in the registry.

Error 7303 means that the username and password combination is not correct, hence the login failed for the user specified in the Linked Server. When the correct login credentials for the Oracle database were entered, the Linked Server got created successfully!