the high water mark of a datafile, meaning the highest data block ever
used you wont be able to shrink it down.

drop the temp tablespace and recreate it during a slow time.

joe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hi all...
> 
>         I've searched thru the archives, but didn't find what I was
> looking for. I have a database with a huge temporary tablespace. It's
> huge because the there is value for max_extent... now I can fix that,
> but my problem is that I can't seen to resize the tablespace:
> 
> > alter database datafile 'temporary.dbf' resize 500M;
> alter database datafile 'temporary.dbf' resize 500M
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-03297: file contains used data beyond requested RESIZE value
> 
>         But the tablespace is empty:
> 
> TABLESPACE                     Total Blocks Empty BLocks
> ------------------------------ ------------ ------------
> TEMP                                 261632       260927
> 
>         So what is preventing me from resizing it?
> 
>         Thanks in advance
> 
> Cyril Jaouich (Conseiller Unix)
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