PDB

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(…)

PDB RMAN backups available after plugging in on a new CDB with Oracle 18c

With Oracle 18c, it is possible to use PDB rman backups created on the source CDB (they are called PREPLUGIN backups) when the PDB has been relocated to a target CDB. In my environment, my original CDB is DB18, with(…)

Oracle 18c clone PDB and Transparent Data Encryption

Let’s do some tests with the Oracle 18c new feature in creating PDB clone with DBCA. Unfortunately, this feature does not work when you have TDE enabled. Just to remember, with Oracle 12.2 we had the possibility to create PDBs with(…)

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(…)

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(…)

12c Multitenant internals: PDB_PLUG_IN_VIOLATIONS

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/12c-multitenant-internals-pdb-replay-ddl-for-common-users I've done some DDL on a common user to show how this is replayed later for PDBs that were not opened at that time. But what happens(…)

12c Multitenant internals: PDB replay DDL for common users

By Franck Pachot . In multitenant, you can create common Users, Roles, and Profiles. You create them in CDB$ROOT, with the CONTAINER=ALL clause (which is optional because it is the only possible value when connected to CDB$ROOT) but they are(…)

Drop PDB including datafiles may keep files open

By Franck Pachot . I like that Oracle drops the datafiles from the operating system when we remove them from the database (with drop tablespace or drop pluggable database) because I don't like to have orphean files remaining in the(…)