Manage Temporary Tablespace in Container Database (CDB) and Pluggable Database (PDB)

In a 12cR1, both CDB and PDB have own dedicated TEMP tablespace by default

SQL> show con_id con_name

CON_ID
---------
1

CON_NAME
---------
CDB$ROOT

SQL> select CON_ID,NAME from v$tablespace where name='TEMP';

CON_ID      NAME
---------- -------------
 1         TEMP
 2         TEMP
 3         TEMP

Default Temporary Tablespace in PDB:

SQL> alter session set container=PDB1;

Session altered.

SQL> ALTER TABLESPACE TEMP TABLESPACE GROUP OLTP_TEMP;

Tablespace altered.

SQL> ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE OLTP_TEMP;

Pluggable database altered.

Check the default Temporary Tablespace for PDB:

SQL> show con_id con_name

CON_ID
---------
3

CON_NAME
---------
PDB1

SQL> select * 
       from database_properties 
      where PROPERTY_NAME='DEFAULT_TEMP_TABLESPACE';

PROPERTY_NAME           PROPERTY_VALUE  DESCRIPTION
----------------------- --------------- --------------------------
DEFAULT_TEMP_TABLESPACE OLTP_TEMP       Name of default temporary 
                                        tablespace

Check the default Temporary Tablespace for CDB as below, we can see CDB is still using its default temporary tablespace TEMP.

SQL> show con_id con_name

CON_ID
------------------------------
1

CON_NAME
------------------------------
CDB$ROOT

SQL> select * 
       from database_properties 
      where PROPERTY_NAME='DEFAULT_TEMP_TABLESPACE';

PROPERTY_NAME             PROPERTY_VALUE  DESCRIPTION
------------------------- --------------- -------------------------
DEFAULT_TEMP_TABLESPACE   TEMP            Name of default temporary
                                          tablespace