exclude_seed_cdb_view

Why EXCLUDE_SEED_CDB_VIEW is now an underscore in Oracle 12.2

Hiding information is not good - and exclude_seed_cdb_view is now an underscore in Oracle 12.2I have received several questions from customers in the past weeks using Oracle Multitenant about the parameter exclude_seed_cdb_view.It magically disappeared and morphed into _exclude_seed_cdb_view since Oracle Database 12.2.0.1. To be fair, the exclude_seed_cdb_view is listed in the list of obsolete parameters in Oracle Database 12.2.0.1.

What is EXCLUDE_SEED_CDB_VIEW?

This parameter hides everything belonging to the PDB$SEED from the usual queries. For instance you ran a query against CDB_DATA_FILES but you won’t see the data files belonging to PDB$SEED in the result set. Whether this is good or bad, at least RMAN (Recovery Manager) worked always correctly.

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