12c, First Steps

12c, Installation,

I was finally able to start with 12C!! So once I finish the installation, I tried to connect to the DB and create a user. That is when I discover that you need to connect to a special Database in order to perform that.

I got an error message creating a user.  Well, I figured out how to create a new user and a few other things.  I’m working with the DB12C database that comes with the install and all the parameters, etc. that come with it.

Evidently the default install comes with a PDB called PDBORCL.  So, I have two tns entries one for the parent CBD and one for the child PDB and they look like this:

DB12C =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 127.0.0.1)
(PORT = 1521))
    (CONNECT_DATA =
      (SERVER = DEDICATED)
      (SERVICE_NAME = DB12C)
    )
  )

PDB =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 127.0.0.1)
(PORT = 1521))
    (CONNECT_DATA =
      (SERVER = DEDICATED)
      (SERVICE_NAME = pdborcl)
    )
  )

So, if I connect as SYSTEM/password@DB12C I’m connected to the CDB and if I connect to SYSTEM/password@pdb I’m connected to the PDB.  When I connected to the PDB I could create a new user without getting an error.

But, when I first tried connecting to the PDB I got this error, even though the database was up:

ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

So, to bring the database up (by the way, I’m on 64 bit Linux) after booting the Linux VM the following steps were required:

lsnrctl start
sqlplus / as sysdba
startup
alter session set container=PDBORCL;
startup

Interestingly there is only one pmon:

$ ps -ef | grep pmon
oracle   11865     1  0 09:12 ?        00:13:46 ora_pmon_DB12C

But you get different results when you query dba_data_files depending on whether connected to the CDB or PDB:

DB12C

FILE_NAME                                 
------------------------------------------
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/DB12C/system01.dbf 
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/DB12c/sysaux01.dbf 
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/DB12C/undotbs01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/DB12C/users01.dbf

PDB

FILE_NAME                                                     
--------------------------------------------------------------
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/DB12C/pdborcl/system01.dbf             
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/DB12C/pdborcl/sysaux01.dbf             
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/DB12C/pdborcl/SAMPLE_SCHEMA_users01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/DB12C/pdborcl/example01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/DB12C/pdborcl/dbfs01.dbf

So, I guess each PDB has its own SYSTEM and SYSAUX tablespaces?

Lastly when running my scripts to poke around I edited my sqlplus header script to report which container you are in.  It looks like this now:

set linesize 32000
set pagesize 1000
set long 2000000000
set longchunksize 1000
set head off;
set verify off;
set termout off;

column u new_value us noprint;
column n new_value ns noprint;
column c new_value cs noprint;

select name n from v$database;
select user u from dual;
SELECT SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV', 'CON_NAME') c FROM DUAL;

set sqlprompt &ns:&cs:&us>

set head on
set echo on
set termout on
set trimspool on

It puts out a prompt like this:

CDB

DB12C:CDB$ROOT:SYSTEM>

PDB

DB12C:CDB$ROOT:SYSTEM>