On 1/19/06, Joseph Amalraj <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Probably 2 temporary tablespaces can be created. Users writing poor queries could be assigned to one of them, and critical applications use the other temporary tablespace. > > Unfortunately Oracle does not allow quotas on temporary tablespace. > > Regards > > Joseph Amalraj Joseph, It "allows" quotas on temporary tablespaces, it just pays no attention to them. :) Paul me@mydb> select * From user_ts_quotas; TABLESPACE_NAME BYTES MAX_BYTES BLOCKS MAX_BLOCKS -------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- TEMP 0 1073741824 0 131072 TS1 0 268435456 0 32768 TS2 21168128 268435456 2584 32768