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
Prior to oracle database 12c, the procedures for converting from single-instance databases to Real Application Clusters involved following steps: Configure the control file attributes and move control file to shared storage Make the initialization parameter file entries for cluster-enabled environments and move SPfile to shared storage Create an undo tablespace for each additional instance Create redo threads for each additiona… Read more
In this article, I will demonstrate how to quickly create a standby database for a non-multitenant container database (NCDB) by plugging it as a pluggable database (PDB) into primary CDB (BOSTON). This method tremendously simplifies and speeds up the procedure to create a standby database without the need to set various initialization parameters or take backup or configure tnsnames.ora entries… Read more
