RMAN, PSU & DBBP
Last time I ran into an issue with RMAN when trying to register a new 12.1.0.2 database in my 12.1.0.2 RMAN catalog database.
Default administrative users when creating a PDB with DBCA
When creating a CDB and at least 1 PDB, DBCA creates the well known users SYS and SYSTEM and the user PDBADMIN. Where is this user created and which privileges are granted to PDBADMIN?
Oracle 12c: Changed parameter naming for “srvctl”
Over time, “srvctl” became a really powerful for the administration of resources of an Oracle cluster. Oracle added new components and options in every new version of the Grid Infrastructure software. With Oracle 12.1.0.2, “srvctl -help” lists 266 options for srvctl.” Until 11.2, parameters were specified as single letters. However, there were duplicates (i.e. the…