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Published on August 13, 2017
Ankit Ashok Aggarwal Follow
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Container Database (CDB) : On the surface this seems very similar to a conventional
Oracle database, as it contains most of the working parts you will be already familiar
with (controlfiles, datafiles, undo, tempfiles, redo logs etc.). It also houses the data
dictionary for those objects that are owned by the root container and those that are
visible to all PDBs.

Pluggable Database (PDB) : Since the CDB contains most of the working parts for the
database, the PDB only needs to contain information specific to itself. It does not need to
worry about controlfiles, redo logs and undo etc. Instead it is just made up of datafiles
and tempfiles to handle it's own objects. This includes it's own data dictionary,
containing information about only those objects that are specific to the PDB. From
Oracle 12.2 onward a PDB can, and should, have a local undo tablespace.

Lets take a look at some of the characteristics of a CDB

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Thee is only one UNDO tablespace for the entire CDB

There is only one set of control files and online redo logs files for the entire CDB.
Individual PDB’s have their own data files (which contain the user data), but do not have
distinct redo log or control files.

We can create on default temporary tablespace for the entire CDB or each PDB can have
its own additional temporary tablespaces

There is single network administration files like listener.ora, tnsnames.ora,

and sqlnet.ora file for an entire CDB. All of the PDBs in the CDB use the same files.

There is only one set of background processes shared by the root and all PDBs

There is a single SGA shared by all PDB’s

When the CDB is shut down then all PDB’s are also automatically shut down

When the CDB is open then we can change the open mode of individual PDBs via
the ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE SQL statement.

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