multitenant

RMAN in a Multitenant Environment

By Mouhamadou Diaw The Oracle Multitenant architecture came with Oracle 12c a few years ago. For people usually working with traditional Non-CDB database it might be confusing the first time to do Backup and Recovery with pluggable databases (PDBs)(…)

ATP vs ADW – the Autonomous Database lockdown profiles

By Franck Pachot . The Oracle database has always distinguished two types of workloads: transactional (OLTP) and datawarehouse (VLDB, DWH, DSS, BI, analytics). There is the same idea in the managed Oracle Cloud with two autonomous database services.

18c: No Active Data Guard required (and detected) when only CDB$ROOT and PDB$SEED are opened in read-only

By Franck Pachot . When you clone a PDB on the primary CDB, you want that the same is automatically done on the standby ones. Unfortunately, for this operation, the CDB must be opened read-only. In 12.1 even the PDB(…)

Change Data Capture from Oracle with StreamSets Data Collector

By Franck Pachot . With this trend of CQRS architectures where the transactions are streamed to a bunch of heterogenous eventually consistent polyglot-persistence microservices, logical replication and Change Data Capture becomes an important component, already at the architecture design phase.

ADWC – System and session settings (DWCS lockdown profile)

By Franck Pachot . The Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service is a PaaS managed service where we have a PDB and an ADMIN user which has most of the system privileges. For example, we have the privilege to change initialization(…)

18c PDB switchover

By Franck Pachot . In multitenant, the recovery and availability are at CDB level. But customers asked for a switchover at PDB level so Oracle has done that in 18c, based on refreshable PDBs. For this test I have two(…)

18c, Cloud First and Cloud Only features: think differently

By Franck Pachot . Remember the times when the Oracle Software features were the same on all platforms? Where Oracle databases could be ported to any relevant platform? Where we were able to try any feature, freely, by downloading the(…)

12cR2 PDB archive

By Franck Pachot . In 12.1 we had the possibility to unplug a PDB by closing it and generating a .xml file that describes the PDB metadata required to plug the datafiles into another CDB. In 12.2 we got an(…)

Multitenant, PDB, ‘save state’, services and standby databases

By Franck Pachot . Creating - and using - your own services has always been the recommendation. You can connect to a database without a service name, though the instance SID, but this is not what you should do. Each(…)

Unplug an Encrypted PDB (ORA-46680: master keys of the container database must be exported)

By Franck Pachot . In the Oracle Database Cloud DBaaS you provision a multitenant database where tablespaces are encrypted. This means that when you unplug/plug the pluggable databases, you also need to export /import the encryption keys. You cannot just(…)