RE: Tablespaces - datafiles

Yes, the ability to create "sparse" tempfiles is platform dependent.

At 11:42 AM 3/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Tom,
>
>Do you have that doc ref handy?
>
>Using this SQL:
>
>create temporary tablespace temp3 tempfile '/u01/oradata/dv03/temp3.dbf'
>size 500m
>extent management local uniform size 1m
>/
>
>On both 8.1.7.0 and 9.2.0.1 on RH 7.2 I found that the file was
>immediately created full size.
>
>Platform dependencies maybe?

Wolfgang Breitling
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