RE: Temporary tablespaces

2001-05-21 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Glen, A tablespace created with the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE command uses tempfiles instead of datafiles, and as such is often called a tempfile tablespace. A tempfile tablespace is equivalent to a locally managed datafile tablespace with temporary contents, except that tempfiles do not

Re: Temporary tablespaces

2001-05-21 Thread Glen Mitchell
Hi Steve, Is there any disadvantage to using a tempfile tablespace for the TEMPtablespaces used by the application? Apart from the fact that they are non-recoverable. In the past Ihave created TEMPtablespaces with datafiles. I suppose the nature of the temp tablespace is that it contains

RE: Temporary Tablespaces

2001-05-20 Thread Christopher Spence
Major differenc is a temporary tablespace does not get logged in the redo logs, and thus a performance gain on writes. -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 5/20/01 9:15 PM Greetings to All, I am interested to know what the difference between a tablespace

RE: Temporary Tablespaces

2001-05-20 Thread Christopher Spence
Yes, Oracle will completely ignore the tempfile in terms of logging. You cannot use LMT on a temporary tablespace, but you can do it on a tempfile. You cannot make a temp file read only or move it which is another diference with temporary tablespaces (temp files). Control file and