Oracle Error ORA-25153 is a regular occurrence during the modification of location or recreation of an Oracle database. It indicates that the administrator neglected to add datafiles to a temporary tablespace. This article provides a solution the error ORA-25153, if it occurs.
Typical Error message:
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/orcl/bdump/orcl_j001_25535.trc:
ORA-25153: Temporary Tablespace is Empty
Sun Sep 19 01:31:00 2010
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 9 (LGWR switch)
Current log# 3 seq# 9 mem# 0: /u05/oradata/orcl/group_3.dbf
Solution:
1. Logon to your Oracle database server as the Oracle software owner.
2. Logon to SQLPLUS with SYSDBA privileges.
mylinux:> sqlplus ‘/ as sysdba’
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 – Production on Sun Sep 19 08:08:39 2010
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Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 – 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
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3. Add a temp file to your default temporary tablespaces with the following syntax: alter tablespace
example:
SQL> alter tablespace temp add tempfile ‘/u05/oradata/orcl/temp01.dbf’ size 2048m;
Tablespace altered.
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4. This completes the resolving of Oracle error ORA-25153.
Larry J. Catt, OCP 9i, 10g
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