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temporary type tablespace

edited Jan 21, 2014 6:26AM in Database Administration (MOSC) 4 commentsAnswered ✓

Hello.  I have a question regarding temporary type tablespace called TEMPORARY_DATA which is not defined as the Default Temporary Tablespace in the database (the TEMP tablespace is defined as the default temporary tablespace).  This temporary tablespace TEMPORARY_DATA has grown larger and I'd Iike to resize this temporary tablespace which from some research (Metalink Note Resizing (or Recreating) the Temporary Tablespace (Doc ID 409183.1)) would necessitate dropping and recreating the TEMPORARY_DATA temporary tablespace.  I should be able to drop the TEMPORARY_DATA tablespace if there are not active transactions.
As the TEMPORARY_DATA tablespace is a temporary type tablespace I believe I should be able to drop and recreate this temporary TEMPORARY_DATA tablespace and not lose any real data.  I believe temporary tablespace contain information to be used in sorting operations and to facilitate work operations?  I ran the following select which shows I believe shows some "segments" in the noted TEMPORARY_DATA temporary tablespaces:

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