Oracle Database 19c Multitenant: now 3 PDBs allowed without Multitenant Option
According to the updated licensing information for Oracle Database 19c (https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/dblic/Licensing-Information.html#GUID-0F9EB85D-4610-4EDF-8…) you can now create up to 3 PDBs in a CDB without Multitenant Option, i.e. even in SE2 (“For all offerings, if you are not licensed for Oracle Multitenant, then you may have up to 3 PDBs in a given container database at any…
Read-Only-Oracle-Home: the follow-up post
After my recent post on read-only ORACLE_HOME I received some feedback and had some discussions with some colleagues on this topic. So I decided that another post may be helpful.
Oracle 18c/19c: Running a “read-only-Oracle-home” on a read-only-filesystem
In Oracle 18c Oracle introduced a new feature, called “read-only-Oracle-Home”. By configuring an Oracle-Home-directory of your RDBMS-installation as “read-only”, Oracle will place all the configuration files like spfile etc. outside the directory tree of your $ORACLE_HOME and will basically move them to “$ORACLE_BASE/dbs” and “$ORACLE_BASE/homes”. But if the software is “read-only”, can we place the…