Starting in oracle database 12 c release 1 12 1 you must create a database as either a multitenant container database cdb or as an oracle database that is non cdb.
How to create non container database in oracle 12c. It tells where to create the datafile for seed database c if we have omf present then we we dont need to give the seed file name convert. This article covers the options for migrating a non cdb pdb database to a pdb. We already know how to create user and grant privileges in a traditional non cdb database. Create a container database cdb manually with create database script note.
How to create user in oracle and assign privileges. Sometimes you need to convert a non cdb database into a cdb pluggable database. Create and configure a pluggable database pdb in oracle database 12c release 1 12 1. We have common user and local users.
It enabled the container database b seed file name convert. This also applies to oracle rac databases. Two important things in this command a enable pluggable database. It create the container database and seed pdb.
The only difference to the installation process is to choose whether to create the oracle rac database as a cdb or non cdb. This blog describes methods that you can use to convert a non cdb database into a cdb database. Oracle version 12c offers multitenant database options for host multiple pluggable databases pdb with a single container database cdb. Oracle strongly recommends using the database configuration assistant dbca instead of the create database sql statement to create a cdb because using dbca is a more automated approach and your cdb is ready to use when dbca completes.
In one of my earlier posts we had seen how we can create a 12c cdb container database using dbca and we had also seen how we can upgrade a database from 11 2 0 3 to oracle 12c release 1.