> Also, it completed successfully for period 20142 but the explain > plan for that one said it would need 573 TB of TEMP space so now I > realize I have zero way to "guess" how much temp space it really > needs but that 150 GB isn't enough. > > The stats are accurate for 100% estimation so I'm not sure why the > estimate on the temp space is so high. How different are values of "A-Rows" from "E-rows"? It seems that you have to gather extended statistics on (STS_PROVIDER,STS_PROGRAM_NO) and on (STS_PERF_PERIOD,STS_DPS_TYPE,STG_GROUP_NO,STG_GROUP_SEQ_NO) column sets. -- Best regards, Sayan Malakshinov http://orasql.org