Just a dbfile like the others. Just curious, which Oracle release you run? 8i? Alvaro ________________________________ De: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Lyall Barbour Enviado el: martes, 14 de agosto de 2007 20:18 Para: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Asunto: Re: temp tablespace blow up just ran an update that had some stupid huge joins and couldn't allocate anymore extents because the 4gb of datafiles were too small. So my update errored. then, no problem still, just that my temp tablespace had an enormous amount of extents. So, i dropped it when users were off and recreated it as TEMPORARY. I've been reading about temporary tablespaces: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE blah TEMPFILE '/d01/oradata/PROD/blah.dbf' size 1000M;