Hash joins may also require space in the temporary tablespace. What is the value of the SEGTYPE column in v$sort_usage? HTH -- Mark D Powell -- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sami Seerangan Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 11:32 AM To: Roger Xu Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: high avg read time for "temporary tablespace" Roger, Thanks for your response. As I mentioned that there is no ORDER BY,DISTINCT ,UNION and group by,etc. I put a monitoring jobs on v$sort_usage to find out who (and what statement) uses extensive temp tablespace. let me check after sometime. Thanks again. On 2/9/06, Roger Xu <roger_xu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I meant it depends on the SQL statements either using a cursor or not. > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Roger Xu > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 5:04 PM > To: dba.orcl@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l > Subject: RE: high avg read time for "temporary tablespace" > > > yes, cursor uses temp if the sql statements have ORDER BY,DISTINCT > ,UNION and group by,etc. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l