What about a different user with a dedicated temp tablespace? You can make that temp tablespace as large or as small as you want w/o conflicting the production user. S- On Thu, 19 May 2005, Jeffrey Beckstrom wrote: > We are using a dictionary managed tablespace for sorts so that we can > limit the maximum space grabbed by a sort to 1 G. I know it is not > possible after the fact to determine who took all of the sort space, > however, we believe it is Discoverer. We are reluctant to convert to a > temporary tablespace since there is no way to limit sort space with > them. This is an ERP system and we don't want Discoverer grabbing all > of the space and killing payroll, etc. > > Can Discoverer be limited in some way? > > Jeffrey Beckstrom > Database Administrator > Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority > 1240 W. 6th Street > Cleveland, Ohio 44113 -- Stephen Rospo Principal Software Architect Vallent Corporation (formerly Watchmark-Comnitel) Stephen.Rospo@xxxxxxxxxxx (425)564-8145 This email may contain confidential information. If you received this in error, please notify the sender immediately by return email and delete this message and any attachments. Thank you. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l