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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, Mansi.

Asked: July 03, 2018 - 5:14 am UTC

Last updated: July 05, 2018 - 8:08 am UTC

Version: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production

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Hi Team,

I went through some weird situation where I am not able to figure out the reason behind error
ORA-01652 unable to extend temp.

While executing a PL/SQL block at one point I am facing this issue. ORA-01652 unable to extend temp.

While checking currently running query, I found one Insert from select is causing this issue, I have tried extending TEMPFile as well but same issue.

After that,I just ran select query from PL/SQL block in SQL developer and it keep running, I can see there were multiple tochar and lpad function used in select.

I just removed all and run again, it worked.

After that when I ran the PL/SQL block,that also ran well.

Any suggestion why this weird thing happens.

and Connor said...

Good information here...

https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/asktom.search?tag=ora-01652-unable-to-extend-temp

https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/asktom.search?tag=ora-01652-unable-to-extend-temp-segment-by-2048-in-table-space-temp

But put simply - you need "n" megabytes of temporary storage for an operation, and there was "n" available. Most likely causes are:

- its a global temporary table you are inserting into
- you are doing large sorts
- you are doing large joins (hash join etc)
- you are doing large aggregations (group by, distinct)

All of these *start* with using RAM and will spill over to disk when RAM allocations are exhausted.

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