Oracle Disk Manager can improve performance for queries, such as sort and parallel queries, that use temporary tablespaces. Without Oracle Disk Manager, Oracle does not initialize the data files for the temporary tablespaces. Therefore, the data files become sparse files and are generally fragmented. Sparse or fragmented files lead to poor query performance. When using Oracle Disk Manager, the data files are initialized for the temporary tablespaces and are allocated in a contiguous fashion, so that they are not sparse.