Please Note this post is for archival purposes. I don’t know if Oracle after 8.x needs this. Hopefully it will still be of use to someone.
So your programmer decided to create a query that had a little syntax error. Say, a typo and it became an endless loop. Now your temporary tablespace is hosed because it is bigger than 2 gigs.Note that this is really only a solution for temp files because they don’t have any data that needs saving.Here is how to fix it: