Hi All, I have been looking into a temporary tablespace usage issue, and I notice there is a gradual increase of the temporary tablespace for a given session. Below is the query I have used to find the temporary tablespace usage, but for every execute(say 1sec) of the below statement, the sql_id/sql_text keeps changing. I enabled the trace for the sessionid, but couldn't find any relevant sql statement which is causing the problem. Could someone help me with some steps or approach on how to troubleshoot this problem. Server/DB information: OS: RHEL5 DB: 11.2.0.1.0 --Find temporary tablespace usage SELECT sysdate "TIME_STAMP", su.username, su.sql_id, su.tablespace, su.usage_mb, vst.sql_text, vp.spid FROM ( SELECT username, sqladdr, sqlhash, sql_id, tablespace, session_addr, sum(blocks)*8192/1024/1024 "USAGE_MB" FROM v$sort_usage HAVING SUM(blocks)> 1000 GROUP BY username, sqladdr, sqlhash, sql_id, tablespace, session_addr ) su, v$sqltext vst, v$session vs, v$process vp WHERE su.sql_id = vst.sql_id AND su.sqladdr = vst.address AND su.sqlhash = vst.hash_value AND su.session_addr = vs.saddr AND vs.paddr = vp.addr AND vst.piece = 0 AND USAGE_MB > 600 ORDER BY SPID ; Sample data from the above query when run in quick intervals. =============================================== TIME_STAMP USERNAME SQL_ID TABLESPACE USAGE_MB SQL_TEXT SPID ---------- ------------------------------ -------------------------------------------- ---------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12/15/2011 6:05:30 PM PADMIN b5n1usr0nzp3p TEMP 1170 UPDATE PX_TSO_ST SET LAST_PEF_TIME = :1 WHERE ID = :2 20786 12/15/2011 6:05:30 PM PADMIN g08yksa6zh7rh TEMP 1211 insert /*+ append */ into PX_HIT_ATT1_60(TIME_ID, SHAPE_ID, 20790 12/15/2011 6:10:48 PM PADMIN 7sy6n2c9w7m32TEMP 1177 UPDATE PX_MACHINE_PART SET MPART_ID = :1, GRIP_ID = :2 20786 12/15/2011 6:10:48 PM PADMIN 2x31xnrqm7n95 TEMP 1218 BEGIN insert_part_proc(:1, :2, :3, :4); END; 20790 12/15/2011 6:11:04 PM PADMIN 9qx7fk138hjx8 TEMP 1177 select t1.DPART_KEY from PX_DPORT t1 left outer join PX_DPO 20786 12/15/2011 6:11:04 PM PADMIN 2x31xnrqm7n95 TEMP 1218 BEGIN insert_part_proc(:1, :2, :3, :4); END; 20790 Thank you RA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l