What you are suggesting is good and valid, and I don't disagree. But back to my question - is there a way to set quota for Temp (using Res Mgr, profile, anything out there, that someone may have used)? --- David Sharples <davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > so what if the user who is using all the temp gets > their query stopped, you > are doing the same thing by wanting to limit their > resources. > > You could change your on call if the 1652 was for > this temp tablespace > > Dont let the tempfiles expand was his point > > > On 20/09/06, Deepak Sharma > <sharmakdeep_oracle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > By creating a separate Temp, how will that stop > the > > ORA-1652, for a run-away query? The difference is > > that with ORA-1652, our on-call gets called, and > if we > > had a quota, then the User would get a message > (quota > > exceeded). The intention is to avoid the 1st one. > > > > What did you mean by limit the sizes of Tempfiles? > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l