We had several discussions on the internal mailing lists the other day about cloning with Pluggable Databases in Oracle 18c (or 12.2.0.1). And I blogged about this topic a while ago but realized I may need to refresh this a bit.
My example from the old blog post still works fine. But I realized that I switched my database into read-only mode. Hence, I like to repeat it and check different options.
Cloning a 12.1 PDB into Oracle 18c
In the source CDB1 I create a fresh PDB first, then open it and create a cloning user with the necessary …
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