Pluggable Databases

12c: shutdown abort a PDB?

By Franck Pachot . Can we shutdown abort a PDB? Let’s try: SQL> show con_id CON_ID ------------------------------ 3SQL> shutdown abort; Pluggable Database closed. But is it really a shutdown abort? The shutdown abort we know in non-CDB – or(…)

Is CDB stable after one patchset and two PSU?

By Franck Pachot . There has been the announce that non-CDB is deprecated, and the reaction that CDB is not yet stable. Well. Let’s talk about the major issue I’ve encountered. Multitenant is there for consolidation. What is the major(…)

Oracle multitenant dictionary: rowcache

By Franck Pachot . I’ve not finished with my investigation on 12c multitenant dictionary. Here, I’m checking how metadata links are managed by the dictionary cache (aka rowcache). As I did previously, I’ll create a metadata link function(…)

Stay with non-CDB or go to CDB?

By Franck Pachot . This is a question that starts to be raised quite frequently. Oracle released the multitenant architecture 1.5 year ago. And now says that the previous architecture – known as non-CDB – is deprecated. What does(…)

Oracle multitenant dictionary: upgrade

By Franck Pachot . This is a second part of the previous post about metadata link. I’ve shown how a sharing=metadata function becomes a sharing=none function when it is changed in the pdb – i.e when not having(…)

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(…)

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(…)

Oracle 12c: comparing TTS with noncdb_to_pdb

By Franck Pachot . How to migrate from non-CDB to CDB? Of course all known migration methods works. But there is also another solution: upgrade to 12c if necessary and then convert the non-CDB to a PDB. This is(…)

12.1.0.2 CDB views are now using CONTAINERS()

By Franck Pachot . I’ve blogged about multitenant internals at the time when 12.1.0.1 was just released. Something has changed in 12.1.0.2 and blogging about it was in my todo list for a long time. Now the occasion(…)

Resize your Oracle datafiles down to the minimum without ORA-03297

By Franck Pachot . Your datafiles have grown in the past but now you want to reclaim as much space as possible, because you are short on filesystem space, or you want to move some files without moving empty(…)