Re: Urgent: Temporary Tablespaces
- From: stephen booth <stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:21:06 +0000
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:07:35 -0700, Bryan Wells <bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> okay... another Newbie (dumb) question:
>
> how do I clear out temporary table space?
You don't. Oracle handles it. The only time you might have to do
anything is if you have users creating non-temporary segments in there
(can happen if it wasn't created correctly and your users are
particularly dangerous, i.e. developers). In that case you'll have to
drop or move the objects to a different tablespace, change your dba
passwords and then find something heavy to chastise the users with.
:-)
> Whats the difference beteween temp space and temporary tablespace?
Depends what you mean by temp space (and your OS).
The temporary tablespace is a tablepace where Oracle creates temporary
segments. Everything is handled 'under the hood', you might need to
think about it for tuning purposes but other than that, barring bugs
and the amove mentioned users, probably not.
If by tempspace you mean operating system temp it depends somewhat on
your operating system. In general it's a dumping ground for any
temporary files tha the OS uses or needs for the duration of a
process. For example under most versions of UNIX the vi text editor
will keep undo and recovery information (not to be confused with
Oracle UNDO (i.e. rollback) and recovery (i.e. redo) infomation) about
the file that you're working on in the /tmp filesystem, under Windows
most verson of MSIE will download a file to c:\temp or c:\windows\temp
and then copy it to the location you designate (which is why you often
get a disk space error when downloading large files even if the drive
you're downloading to has more than enough space, there's not enough
space on the drive your temp directory is on). Under some OSes
(Solaris being an example) the tempspace is also used for swapping and
paging when memory gets full.
Stephen
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