A temporary tablespace contains transient data that persists only for the duration of the session. Temporary tablespaces can improve the concurrency of multiple sort operations that do not fit in memory and can improve the efficiency of space management operations during sorts.
Temporary tablespaces are used to store the following:
You cannot explicitly create objects in a temporary tablespace.
Temporary tablespaces are used to store the following:
- Intermediate sort results
- Temporary tables and temporary indexes
- Temporary LOBs
- Temporary B-trees
TEMP
is created for each new Oracle Database installation. You can create additional temporary tablespaces with the CREATE
TABLESPACE
statement. You can assign a temporary tablespace to each database user with the CREATE USER
or ALTER USER
statement. A single temporary tablespace can be shared by multiple users.You cannot explicitly create objects in a temporary tablespace.
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