Resizing temporary tablespace in oracle 8i

Question

Please,
I some questions on oracle 8i.
1. how do I know on oracle 8i if the tablespace X is the temporary tablespace?
2. I have someone that increase the size of the temporary tablespace, so I have to decrease it to its normal size, my question is when I do the following command.
alter database tempfile '/u02/oradata/TESTDB/temp01.dbf' resize 250M;
alter database tempfile '/u02/oradata/TESTDB/temp01.dbf' resize 250M
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-03297: file contains used data beyond requested RESIZE value
Does someone show me how to solve this issue?
Thanks

Answer 1

you can use the below sqls
sql>SELECT tablespace_name, extent_size, total_extents, used_extents,
free_extents, max_used_size FROM v$sort_segment;
From the output of the v$sort_segment query:
extent_size      : size of one extent, in number of Oracle blocks
total_extents     : total number of extents in the segment (free or in use)
used_extents      : total number of extents currently in use
free_extents      : total number of extents currently marked as free
max_used_size: maximum number of extents ever needed by an operation (like a sort):
sql> SELECT s.username, u.tablespace, u.contents, u.extents, u.blocks FROM v$session s,
v$sort_usage u WHERE s.saddr=u.session_addr;
SQL> select s.username, s.sid, u.tablespace, u.contents, u.segtype,
round(u.blocks*8192/1024/1024,2) MB
from v$session s, v$sort_usage u
where s.saddr = u.session_addr
and u.contents = 'TEMPORARY'
order by MB DESC ;
reference
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Note 273276.1 How to Shrink the datafile of Temporary Tablespace
Note 274283.1 How to resize Tempfiles if receive an ORA-03297 error Gen RDBMS.
RD-9014 :
Note 132663.1 ORA-03296 Resizing Temporary Locally Managed Tablespace
Note 180578.1 Cannot Resize Tempfiles in Bitmapped Temporary Tablespaces
Note 161103.1 Space For a Tempfile Not Allocated In The Filesystem