Unfortunately, this is purely an application issue... the LOB segments won't be released until the session terminates, *unless* they're explicitly closed. In our case, the only immediately viable solution was to recycle the application (or kill the relevant SID) since so many sessions were affected. The long-term solution was an application-side code change, to call DBMS_LOB.CLOSE at the appropriate times. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 16:07, Raju Angani <angani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Adric, > > you were spoton, when I added the segtype as you recommended, all > those rows showed as LOB_DATA. > Now, is there a way I can make a fix to shrink the temporary tablespace. > > Thank you > RA > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l