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Oracle multitenant dictionary: metadata links

By Franck Pachot . As in previous posts (1 and 2) I’m still playing with multitenant dictionary. You may wonder why I’m spending time to do unsupported things that we will never be able to use in real life. Of course, playing with internals is fun 😉 But it’s not only that. We will implement CDB databases (multi-tenant, and single-tenant… 

Oracle multitenant dictionary: object links

By Franck Pachot . I’ve described Oracle 12c metadata and object links internals in a previous post. But before that, the first time I investigated on it, I made a wrong assumption because I was looking at AUDIT_ACTIONS which is not correctly implemented. That investigation came from a question on dba-village. And recently Ivica Arsov (@IvicaArsov) has made an interesting… 

How to list all Oracle system schemas

By Franck Pachot . Do you want to know which users come with the Oracle Database and which are the ones you have created? This is that not easy, especially prior to Oracle 12c. You know SYS and SYSTEM, but there are many others – especially when you have installed all options. And it is important to know them all,… 

Oracle 12c CDB – metadata & object links internals

By Franck Pachot . Warning: this is only geek stuff about internals on multitenant database dictionary, metadata, and object links. It has nothing to do with the operations that you can do on your database. Don’t try that in production or you can corrupt the whole dictionary. In 12 multitenant database (aka CDB) we know that each pluggable database is…