>Thanks for your reply Mark.
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>I created a new tablespace. Now I will create an application user that uses the new tablespace.
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>What is the purpose of a temporary tablespace? I noticed that when you create an user your have to tell oracle the 'default' tablespace and also the 'temporary' tablespace.
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>Thanks,
>Sergio

Oracle also creates and deletes temp files. So this is the tablespace it uses for those files.