Temporary Tablespace not shrinking automatically after restarting the DB.

Question

I had a Database with 2GB tempfile. It gave me an error that it's unable to extend the temporary segment. I added a new tempfile of 500MB. Within a few min the new file was filled. In process of shrinking the temporary files, I shutdown the DB, and restarted it. But the Tempfiles were still filled to the max. I still don't understand why? Then I attached a new tempfile of 1GB to the Temp Tablespace, but it didn't use the new tempfile. I repeated the restart process again but still the output was same.
1. Both datafiles were filled to the max
2. It didn't use the new (3rd) attached tempfile.
Finally I've created a new tablespace with new Tempfiles, and it's working now. But I'm still confused. Please suggest me with the possibilities. How can i shrink the Temporary Tablespace/Tempfiles.
Thanks & Regards
Vikas Verma
Manager (IT) / Sr. DBA
Hero Cycle Group,
India

Answer 1

It all depends from what you understand by shrinking:
If you would like to shrink tempfile for tablespace I would suggest using following procedure:
Find out to which size you can shrink tempfile
select extent_size,current_users,total_extents,used_extents,free_extents
from v$sort_segment
where tablespace_name='TEMP';
alter database tempfile 'XXXX' resize YYM;
YY is the size which can be found by above query.
But Ithink you are more interested in following procedure:
create new
make this new one the default temporary tablespace for the database
drop old
ps. Yoogesh ask you about DB version
you can find bd version by:
select *
from v$version
select *
from product_component_version
Best Regards
Krystian Zieja / mob