Cloning of a Pluggable Database (PDB) in Oracle Multitenant is a great feature and is very useful. Oracle Database 12c Release 1 has introduced various enhancements to the cloning of Pluggable Databases to overcome the limitations imposed by the initial release of Oracle Database 12c (12.1.0.1). In Oracle 12.1.0.2c: PDBs can be hot cloned, i.e. you don’t need to put the source PDB… Read more
What is cloning? Cloning is a process of copying an existing installation to a different server or location. Cloning is similar to an Oracle installation except Oracle universal installation performs the actions in a special mode called “clone mode”. Starting from 10g onwards, Oracle supports cloning and users can easily clone existing Oracle installations. The source and destination servers should… Read more