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By Franck Pachot . Weird title, isn't it? That was my reaction when I did my first 'lsnrctl status' in 12.2: weird service name... If you have installed 12.2 multitenant, then you have probably seen this strange service name registered(…)

Oracle 12cR2, RAC, Cloud, ACFS, PDB thin clones and asmadmin

By Franck Pachot . In the Oracle Public Cloud, fast provisioning gets all its meaning when creating a RAC database service: in one hour you can get an operational highly available multitenant database. You can even create it in Data(…)

12cR2: lockdown profiles and ORA-01219

By Franck Pachot . When you cannot open a database, you will get some users unhappy. When you cannot open multitenant database, then the number of unhappy users is multiplied by the number of PDBs. I like to encounter problems(…)

12cR2 DBCA can create a standby database

By Franck Pachot . Do you like DBCA to create a database from command line, with -silent -createDatabase? On a simple command line you can provision a database, with oratab, tnsnames.ora directory creation and any setting you want. And you(…)

Exadata Express Cloud Service: MAX_PDB_STORAGE

By Franck Pachot . The separation of roles between system DBA and application DBA is the way to go for agile development and the PDBaaS managed service is an excellent way to play with this concept: You are PDB administrator(…)

Running SLOB on Exadata Express Cloud Service

By Franck Pachot . The Exadata Express Cloud Service is a managed PDBaaS: Oracle is the system admin and the CDB database administrator, you are the PDB administrator. You connect with a local user, PDB_ADMIN, which is no SYSDBA privilege(…)

Exadata Express Cloud Service: PDB_ADMIN privileges

By Franck Pachot . I usually explain that the main point about Multitenant Architecture is the separation of roles between a system DBA who manages the container, and is responsible for its availability, and application DBA who owns all the(…)

Oracle 12cR2: AWR views in multitenant

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I explained how the AWR views have changed between 12.1.0.1 and 12.1.0.2 and now in 12.2.0.1 they have changed again. This is a good illustration of multitenant object(…)

RMAN> TRANSPORT TABLESPACE

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I explained how to use transportable tablespace from a standby database. Here I'm showing an alternative where you can transport from a backup instead of a standby database.

Oracle Database 12c Release 2 Multitenant (Oracle Press)

By Franck Pachot . Here it is. The multitenant book is out for sale...