So that means that the TEMP tablespace will always be at 100% usage, correct? thank you Gene Gurevich "Alexander Fatkulin" <afatkulin@gmail. To com> genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc 06/13/2007 11:45 oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx AM Subject Re: temporary space usage The segments will be reused by the another processes as needed. Oracle keeps them so it doesn't need to create them again each time someone wants it. On 6/13/07, genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does the bottom query indicates that the TEMP TS is used by some temporary > segments, which will be reused by any > process that needs TEMP ts and therefore is misleading? Or is there another > explanation? > > thank you > > Gene Gurevich > -- Alexander Fatkulin -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l