You are right, it was upgraded from 8i three years ago. Everything is still Dictionary-managed. Thanks, Roger -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Grant Allen Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:22 AM To: Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail) Subject: Re: a permanent tablespace as a temporary tablespace On 10/28/06, Roger Xu <Roger.Xu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I inherited a SAP R/3 4.0B database in Solaris 9 / Oracle 9i. > And it uses a permanent tablespace for temporary tablespace. > > Any comments and thoughts? It has been like this for at least > 3 year and nobody report any problems because of this. Two thoughts. Possibly the instance was upgraded from 8i (or earlier) ... 9i won't let you create a new user with temp tbs set to a perm tbs, but it's probably "kind" to existing users if the instance is upgraded (someone will doubtless correct me on this). Secondly, if it ain't broke ... Ciao Fuzzy :-) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing or other use o ____________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l