I never set my undo or temp to autoextend. It's the easiest database "tell" that somebody has written something screwy if the tablespaces blow up _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kellyn Pedersen Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:26 PM To: ecandrietta@xxxxxxxxx; wellmetus@xxxxxxxxx Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: How to clear UNDOTBS- Slightly OT How many DBA's inspect what is utilizing temp and undo? How many DBA's see a large temp and/or UNDO tablespace as a red flag in a database? Kellyn Pedersen Multi-Platform DBA I-Behavior Inc. http://www.linkedin.com/in/kellynpedersen www.dbakevlar.blogspot.com <http://www.dbakevlar.blogspot.com/> "Go away before I replace you with a very small and efficient shell script..." --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Roger Xu <wellmetus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi,