Standard Edition High Availability – First Impressions
Last year Oracle caused a great outcry among the fans of the Standard Edition 2 (SE2) of the Oracle Database when they announced that Real Application Cluster (RAC)is not available for SE2 in the release 19c anymore. The “announcement” was a little bit hidden in the licensing information and the information came at very short…
ORA-65028 when plugging in a PDB from a PDB archive into a RAC database
I’m currently testing all the different PDB features like local and remote cloning or plugging in a PDB on a 19.6 Container-Database in a Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA), i.e. a setup with RAC, ASM and DataGuard in place. Everything went fine, except for the attempt to plugin a PDB from a PDB archive, which always…
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…