Drop Pluggable Database

DROP PLUGGABLE DATABASE – things you need to know

Directly after my DOAG (German Oracle User Group) Conference presentation about “How Single-/Multitenant will change a DBA’s life” Martin Bach (Enkitec) approached me and told me about his experiences with the DROP PLUGGABLE DATABASE command and future recoverability.

Martin discovered that once you issued the DROP PLUGGABLE DATABASE command you can’t reuse a previously taken backup of this particular PDB anymore and recover the PDB into this existing CDB. I wasn’t aware of this and I’m glad that Martin told me about it.

Actually only the meta information in the controlfile or the RMAN catalog will be deleted. But archive

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Recent News about Pluggable Databases – Oracle Multitenant

Three recent lessons about PDBs in the Oracle Single/Multitenant space you should be aware of.

And thanks to my teammates and the Multitenant PMs for bringing this into our radar.

Unplug/plug – don’t forget to DROP your PDB

I’ve had to add a single line to my previous blog post about the upgrade solution Unplug/Plug/Upgrade for PDBs:
https://mikedietrichde.com/2014/08/05/upgrade-pdbs-one-at-a-time-unplugplug/

Unplug Plug Upgrade PDB Oracle Mutitenant

You’ll have to DROP your PDB after you have unplugged it as otherwise the information will stay in the CDB’s dictionary where you have unplugged it from (a) forever and (b) during an subsequent upgrade of the entire source CDB. But the …

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