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 …