> Some panic has set it in. > > One of the ideas thrown out is to boot all users (except batch flowid) out > of the database as say 6P, or not allow login from users starting at 6P, > > what would be the best way (or can we) to do the above concepts. > > thanks, joe Have you considered giving your "batch flowid" it's own TEMP TS? I do that for our ad-hoc userids so when they attempt to sort all rows in our largest table and fills TEMP_AD_HOC, it only potentially affects other ad-hoc transactions. Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l