Unable to extend temp segment by 128

Question

Hello
In our Company an erp is running very well.
All reports were running very fine. and forms lov also.
an error is comming when seen from sql
unable to extend temp segment by 128 in tablespace MAKESS_TEMP
for e.g
1 select e.vc_group_desc,f.vc_sub_group_desc,
2 to_number(substr(d.vc_invoice_no,3)) inv_no1,d.dt_invoice_date inv_date,
3 b.vc_item_group,b.vc_item_sub_group,
4 d.vc_item_code,d.vc_item_desc,d.vc_unit,d.vc_invoice_no,d.dt_invoice_date,
5 d.nu_item_disc,
6 d.vc_invoice_no inv_no,
7 d.vc_cust_name cf_cust_name,d.nu_tot_sale_val,
8 d.nu_tot_charge charge,d.nu_tot_disc disc,
9 d.nu_tot_freight freight,d.nu_product_quantity,d.nu_product_rate,
10 d.nu_item_val ,d.vc_voucher_no voucher_no,
11 d.nu_tot_cycle_val,d.nu_tot_parts_val
12 from dt_sale_invent d,
13 makess.mst_item b,
14 mst_group e,mst_sub_group f
15 where
16 f.vc_comp_code='01'
17 and f.vc_sub_group_code=b.vc_item_sub_group
18 and e.vc_comp_code='01'
19 and e.vc_group_code=b.vc_item_group
20 and b.vc_comp_code='01'
21 and b.vc_item_code =d.vc_item_code
22 and d.vc_comp_code='01'
23 and d.dt_invoice_date between '01-APR-03' AND '31-MAR-04'
24 and e.vc_group_code='66'
25 and d.vc_item_group='66'
26* order by 2,4,3
SQL> /
from dt_sale_invent d,
ERROR at line 12:
ORA-01652: unable to extend temp segment by 128 in tablespace MAKESS_TEMP
here makess_temp is temporary tablespace
i have seen makess_temp.ora file size has gone to 16 GB
This tablespace was generated by this query
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE makess_temp TEMPFILE 'D:\ORACLE9I\avondata\avon\maketemp.ora' SIZE 200M AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 20M DEFAULT STORAGE ( INITIAL 100K NEXT 100K MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS UNLIMITED PCTINCREASE 1 );
pls recommend me what to do,how to increase its size

Answer 1

As Jeroen suggests, you could add a datafile to your temp tablespace, but, I'm not sure that that is your problem.
Unless your tables are really huge (and I mean several tens of Gb each), and that query actually returns a substantial percentage of the rows in the tables, I don't see why it would use 16Gb of temp.
I would re-create the temp tablespace with:
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 1M
for starters. Minimally, I would set pctincrease to 0.
I would also look at the the Explain Plan for the query to see if there are a lot of sort joins going on. Make sure that the tables and indexes are analyzed properly so the statistics are up to date.
HTH
John