Building Database Clouds in Oracle 12c

5. Database Consolidation in Enterprise Manager 12c

In Chapter 4, “Schema Consolidation in Enterprise Manager 12c,” you learned how to set up and use schema as a service and were introduced to the issue of namespace collision. Let’s move on now and look at an even better consolidation model that deals with the namespace collision issue using Oracle Database 12c’s multitenant architecture—the capability to host multiple schemas from different tenants within the same database. From the cloud perspective, this model is known as pluggable database as a service (PDBaaS). PDBaaS enables the highest degree of consolidation. A pluggable database (PDB), which can be described as portable sets of schemas, schema objects, and related structures that appear ...