I was needing to extract DDL for temporary tablespaces on Oracle Database . Then, I took the information about it using a DBMS_METADATA. Thus, follow how to take this information: SQL> set heading off; SQL> set echo off; SQL> set pages 2000 SQL> set long 99999 SQL> spool tablespace_temp.sql SQL> select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLESPACE', tablespace_name) from dba_temp_files; ##HERE WILL BE SHOW TEMPORARY TABLESPACES DLL ABOUT YOUR DATABASE## SQL> spool off I hope this post can help you! See ya, Bruno Reis brunors