Major differenc is a temporary tablespace does not get logged in the redo
logs, and thus a performance gain on writes.


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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 that is
"created as temporary" and a "temporary tablespace" is.  I am using
8.1.6.3.0. 


There are two commands that can be used ... 


create tablespace ...... temporary; 


and 


create temporary tablespace ....; 


According to the Oracle documentation ... 


A tablespace that is created as temporary (ie. create tablespace ...
temporary) is used to hold temporary objects eg. segments used by
implicit sorts to handle order by clauses.  Also if you specify
temporary you cannot specify EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL. 


Whereas a temporary tablespace (ie. create temporary tablespace ...) is
used to contain schema objects for the duration of a session.  And you
can specify EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL. 


Can anyone enlighten me as to whether these two constructs are the same
thing!  I am assuming they are the same and are used for storing
temporary session objects and sort segments and the only difference is
that you can only create a locally managed temporary tablespace with one
of them. 


Or, is the "create tablespace ... temporary" there for backwards
compatibility?? A the "create temporary tablespace" is the new way to do
things?? 


TIA 


Glen 

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