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  1. #1
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    Hi All,
    I was wondering why my temporary tablespace is growing so fast. Is there anything I can do about it? I think our application is opening a lot of cursors and that's causing the problem. Is there a way to free up the space on the temp tablespace? At the moment the size has grown to about 300 Megs.

    Thanks,
    Dee.
    God Bless

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    well turn the autoextend off then

    cursor does not cause temp tablespace to grow, it's your SQL statements that cause them with ORDER BY, GROUP BY or MERGE JOINs

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    Thanks Pando, but what will be the impact of turning off autoextend? Will it affect performance in anyway?

    Dee.
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    If you turn autoextend off, the users who are using all your TEMP space will start complaining because their queries fail.
    Jeff Hunter

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    but then again considering 300mb for a temp tablespace is not much anyways

    and you have not said what kind of database is it, oltp or dwh

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    That's what I thought. I can't have our developers breath down my neck. By the way, I am not running an OLTP, it more or less a DWH. I am not used to seeing that much growth on the TEMP tablespace, but they are developing a GUI tool that I think does a lot of order by and sorting. Is there anything I should do or should be aware of at this point?

    Thanks,
    Dee
    God Bless

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    i think u can consider creating some indexes based on the explain plan of a particular query .
    siva prakash
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    if it's DWH then 300MB is nothing

    in our DWH we have like 15GB temp tablespaces

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    Thanks guys, now I can sleep in peace.

    Dee.
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