How to create a temporary tablespace in Oracle?
In Oracle, you can create temporary tablespace using the following syntax:
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp_tablespace
TEMPFILE '/path/to/tempfile.dbf' SIZE 100M
AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 10M MAXSIZE UNLIMITED
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 1M;
Key points in the above statement are as follows:
- The name of the temporary tablespace is temp_tablespace and can be customized as needed.
- The path and name of the data file for the temporary table space, /path/to/tempfile.dbf, can be customized as needed.
- The initial size of the temporary tablespace is set to 100MB with the SIZE 100M option, and can be adjusted as needed.
- Enabling AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 10M MAXSIZE UNLIMITED will automatically increase the temporary tablespace, with each expansion being 10MB and a maximum size set to unlimited.
- LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 1M specifies a local managed, evenly distributed extension method with each extension size set to 1MB, which can be adjusted as needed.
When creating a temporary tablespace, other parameters can also be set according to actual requirements, such as:
- You can set a default temporary tablespace called temp_tablespace.
- You can add temporary tablespace to a temporary tablespace group named group_name.
It’s important to note that creating temporary tablespaces requires the appropriate permissions, such as CREATE TABLESPACE and CREATE ANY DIRECTORY permissions.