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Pluggable Databases

New with Oracle Database 12c is Oracle Multitenant. This feature allows you to create and maintain many pluggable databases within an overarching multitenant container database. Following is a concise introduction to pluggable terminology.

A multitenant container database (CDB) is defined as a database capable of housing one or more pluggable databases. A container is defined as a collection of data files and metadata that exist within a CDB. A pluggable database is a special type of container that can be easily provisioned by cloning another database. If need be, a  pluggable database can also be transferred from ...

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