Simon Krenger

I was eager to try out the new Pluggable Database feature of the newly released Oracle 12c Database. I installed the software, created the database (see my post about the “ENABLE PLUGGABLE DATABASE” clause which I forgot the first time around) and then wanted to create a new Pluggable Database (PDB) like so:

SQL> CREATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE kdb121p1 ADMIN USER simon IDENTIFIED BY tiger;
CREATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE kdb121p1 ADMIN USER simon IDENTIFIED BY tiger
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

Oh, really strange, what kind of error message is that?
First off, I made sure my main database is a Container Database:

As many of my colleagues, I have been eager to try out the new Pluggable Database (PDB) feature of the newly released Oracle 12c Database. I installed the software, created the database using my default CREATE DATABASE statement I have lying around and then tried to create a pluggable database by issuing the following command:

SQL> create pluggable database kdb121p1 admin user simon identified by tiger file_name_convert = ('/pdbseed/','/kdb121p1/');
create pluggable database kdb121p1 admin user simon identified by tiger file_name_convert = ('/pdbseed/','/kdb121p1/')
                          *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-65090: operation only allowed in a container database

It turns out a database explicitly needs to be created as a Container Database (CBD) in order to be able to create new PDBs!

During a silent Oracle 12c Release 1 database installation on a newly set up Oracle Enterprise Linux box, I encountered the following error when performing the installation:

[oracle@pandora database]$ ./runInstaller -silent -responseFile /home/oracle/database/response/kdb.rsp 
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 45136 MB    Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB.   Actual 4031 MB    Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2013-06-27_12-11-01AM. Please wait ...
[oracle@pandora database]$ [FATAL] PRVF-0002 : Could not retrieve local nodename
A log of this session is currently saved as: [..]

But when I checked the hostname, everything seems to be just fine, I even get the FQDN:

Alright, it seems that as of yesterday evening, Oracle 12c Release 1 is available for download for the Linux x86-64 platform!

Now excuse me, I’m off to test out the new release…