I don't do that, but I would write a script to check the alert log periodically - and I don't like the 10g style WARNING notices because they tend not to get picked up by existing scripts. Do you guys write script to check the existing of the tempfile? I think I need to add "ADD TEMPFILE" in my startup script. Regards, Sinardy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirtikumar Deshpande" <kedeshpande@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Oracle-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <all_about_oracle@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:52 AM Subject: Re: Temp tbs with no temp file > Hi, > Sorry I did not catch all the messages in this thread... > > So, is this temporary tablespace the default at database level? > > Look in DATABASE_PROPERTIES to check which tablespace is the default temporary > tablespace. > > select * > from database_properties > where property_name = 'DEFAULT_TEMP_TABLESPACE'; > > If the default temp tablespace is the same that does not have any tempfiles associated > with it, then your sorting, so far, did not need to write to sort segments and was > completing in memory (same for the hash joins). If those segments needed to be written to > temp tablepace without tempfiles you would have seen following error: > > ORA-25153: Temporary Tablespace is Empty > > > HTH, > > Cheers! > > - Kirti > > > --- Sinardy <all_about_oracle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > My DB without temp file (tablespace) for like two months during this time > > where are the sorting being carried out? I know add temp file will work but > > just curious how come I can work without temp file. > > > > regards, > > Sinardy > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail > Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: > http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com