Hello, Thanks to Jaffar, Barbara, Dick and Dennis for your help. The problem is solved. It was only a false alarm from the NetIQ job. Thanks again, Estifan -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Williams [mailto:oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 7:07 PM To: Panosian, Estifan Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle Temp datafile Estifan, The possibility that occurs to me is that the TEMP tablespace was created with a tempfile, which has gone missing. Check for that. Also check the alert log for a more meaningful error message. Dennis Williams