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Architecture diagram showing Oracle Database 19c local PDB cloning within the same CDB and remote PDB cloning across two CDBs using a database link, with ASM storage notation

PDB Cloning in Production: Gotchas Nobody Warns You About

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A request came in on a Thursday afternoon — the UAT team needed a fresh copy of the production PDB by Friday morning for regression testing. We had done local PDB clones before. The command is short, the documentation looks clean, and on a quiet system the operation finishes in minutes. What we had not Read more about PDB Cloning in Production: Gotchas Nobody Warns You About[…]

Architecture diagram showing Oracle Database 19c CDB resource plan distributing CPU and memory limits across four PDBs: SANTEST, OEMDB, PDB_REPORT, and PDB_BATCH

Managing PDB Resources: CPU and Memory Isolation Done Right

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We had four PDBs on the same CDB running without any Oracle PDB resource plan for CPU and memory isolation. Three of them handled routine OLTP workloads — order processing, user authentication, a reporting schema. The fourth was a batch analytics PDB that ran nightly aggregations across three years of transactional history. For the first Read more about Managing PDB Resources: CPU and Memory Isolation Done Right[…]