Database management

Which privilege for CREATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE from DB LINK?

By Franck Pachot . When cloning a PDB from a remote CDB you need to define a database link to be used in the CREATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE … FROM …@… command. The documentation is not completely clear about the(…)

12cR2 needs to connect with password for Cross-PDB DML

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post, I explained that Cross-PDB DML, executing an update/delete/insert with the CONTAINERS() clause, seems to be implemented with implicit database links. Connecting through a database link requires a password(…)

Workaround for bug 19566227/20563128 doing Cross Platform Migration (MOS Note 1389592.1)

In a project I have to move an Oracle 11.2.0.4-DB (around 7TB in size) from Sparc Solaris (called Source in the remainder of this Blog) to Linux x86-64 (called Target in the remainder of the Blog). I.e. a platform migration(…)

random “ORA-01017: invalid username/password” in 12cR2

By Franck Pachot . Since 12cR2 is out, we give our 12c new feature workshop with hands-on exercises on 12.1 and 12.2 releases. When I gave it last month, I had a small problem when doing(…)

12cR2 Cross-container DML – insert into container()

By Franck Pachot . Multitenant has been introduced in 12.1.0.1 with the goal to share resources but isolate data. However, having all PDBs in the same root may be convenient to manipulate data in multiple PDBs. In the first patchset,(…)

Oracle 12cR2 : Optimizer Statistics Advisor

The Optimizer Statistics Advisor is a new Advisor in Oracle 12.2. The goal of this Advisor is to check the way you gather the statistics on your database, and depending on what is found, it will makes some recommendations(…)

Can you open PDB$SEED read write?

By Franck Pachot . If you are in multitenant, you probably already felt the desire to open the PDB$SEED in READ WRITE mode. Can you open PDB$SEED read write yourseld? Yes and No. Should you open PDB$SEED read write yourself?(…)

12c nologging and Data Guard

By Franck Pachot . The title sounds weird because Data Guard synchronisation is based on the redo stream, so it makes no sense to do nologging operations on the primary. And this is the reason why we set FORCE LOGGING(…)

12cR2 partial PDB backup

By Franck Pachot . I had a recent question about the following mention from the 12cR2 Multitenant book, about Partial PDB backups: . Here is an example in 12.2 with local undo to illustrate the(…)

Listener and Virtual IP

By Franck Pachot . When you configure a standby database, you want the application to transparently connect to the primary database, wherever it is. That's the role of Transparent Application Failover, but this requires configuration on the client side. If(…)