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OTN Appreciation Day – Thanks OTN

Many people shared their favorite Oracle feature as blog post. Currently Oracle 12.1 is the most actual version but 12.x is on it’s way. So my not posting something on the newest and greatest features – like my favorite: “Multitenant Database”? There is one single feature in the Oracle database which is outstanding since the first release with Oracle 8: RMAN!!! So my OTN Appreciation Day blog post is: “It’s so easy to use RMAN for Backups“. I wrote the blog in 2012 but guess it’s still valid.

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By Johannes Ahrends • 11. October 2016 • 1 minute of reading

Multitenant in a Dataguard Environment

Actually I have a project where we are going to set up a high availability infrastructure with RAC and Dataguard. Due to the requirements from several applications (e.g. Flashback) we decided to implement the Multitenant database option. Even though it is not yet supported to flashback a single PDB we are able to use Snapshot Standby to flashback the standby database and unplug / create a PDB at a specific point in time.