image

CHAPTER49The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Pluggable Databases

Using a database appliance such as Oracle Exadata helps the database administrator to consolidate dozens, if not hundreds, of databases in one cabinet. Managing each of these databases separately, however, is still a challenge from a resource management perspective. Instances for each of those databases may use their memory and CPU resources inefficiently, preventing even more databases from being deployed to the server. With pluggable databases (PDB), introduced in Oracle Database 12c, you can leverage your database resources more efficiently because many different databases (each consisting ...

Get Oracle Database 12c The Complete Reference now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.