That would make sense if I hadn't defined my temp space as autoextendable, but I did. A quick check of my alert.log showed me the statement I used: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP TEMPFILE '/u06/oradata/sid1/temp01.dbf' SIZE 5001M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 250M MAXSIZE 40001M, '/u01/oradata/sid1/temp02.dbf' SIZE 5001M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 250M MAXSIZE 40001M, '/u02/oradata/sid1/temp03.dbf' SIZE 5001M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 250M MAXSIZE 40001M, '/u03/oradata/sid1/temp04.dbf' SIZE 5001M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 250M MAXSIZE 40001M, '/u04/oradata/sid1/temp05.dbf' SIZE 5001M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 250M MAXSIZE 40001M, '/u05/oradata/sid1/temp06.dbf' SIZE 5001M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 250M MAXSIZE 40001M EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 10M; Dave ------------------------------------- Dave Herring, DBA Acxiom Corporation 3333 Finley Downers Grove, IL 60515 wk: 630.944.4762 <mailto:dherri@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dherri@xxxxxxxxxx> > ------------------------------------- ________________________________ From: zhu chao [mailto:zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 7:35 PM To: Herring Dave - dherri Cc: Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail) Subject: Re: DBA_TEMP_FILES.MAXBYTES is wrong Seems maxbytes column only applies to autoextendable datafile/tempfiles. For autoextend off datafile/tempfile, this column does not mean anything. -- Regards Zhu Chao www.cnoug.org ********************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l