A tablespace group enables a user to consume temporary space from multiple tablespaces. Using a tablespace group, rather than a single temporary tablespace, can alleviate problems caused where one tablespace is inadequate to hold the results of a sort, particularly on a table that has many partitions. A tablespace group enables parallel execution servers in a single parallel operation to use multiple temporary tablespaces.
A tablespace group has the following characteristics:
The view
A tablespace group has the following characteristics:
- It contains at least one tablespace. There is no explicit limit on the maximum number of tablespaces that are contained in a group.
- It shares the namespace of tablespaces, so its name cannot be the same as any tablespace.
- You can specify a tablespace group name wherever a tablespace name would appear when you assign a default temporary tablespace for the database or a temporary tablespace for a user.
The view
DBA_TABLESPACE_GROUPS
lists tablespace groups and their member tablespaces.
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