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How to speed up Multitenant CUSTOM database creation

Why has the PDB$SEED such a strange setup?I usually create my container databases for testing with the CUSTOM option of DBCA. That allows me to specify exactly the components I’d like to have – or not. But I realized two things during the CUSTOM creation: It takes very long. And in the alert.log I see resize operations especially with the PDB$SEED during dictionary view creation. I see heap warnings. And recompilations. I did ask myself how to speed up Multitenant CUSTOM database creation.

Background Information

The PDB$SEED is the – I call it – “blueprint” pluggable database. It’s sole purpose is to allow you fast provisioning of …

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