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Do you know the RMAN Recovery advisor? It detects the problems, and then you:

RMAN> list failure;
RMAN> advise failure;
RMAN> repair failure;

You need to have a failure detected. You can run Health Check if it was not detected automatically (see https://blog.dbi-services.com/oracle-12c-rman-list-failure-does-not-show-any-failure-even-if-there-is-one/). In 12.2 you can run the repair directly, by specifying what you want to repair.

Data Pump is a powerful way to save data or metadata, move it, migrate, etc. Here is an example showing few new features in 12cR1 and 12cR2.

New parameters

Here is the result of a diff between 12.1 and 12.2 ‘imp help=y’

But for this post, I’ll show the parameters that existed in 12.1 but have been enhanced in 12.2

LOGTIME

This is a 12.1 feature. The parameter LOGTIME=ALL displays the system timestamp in front of the messages in at the screen and in the logfile. The default is NONE and you can also set it to STATUS for screen only and LOGFILE for logfile only.

Weird title, isn’t it? That was my reaction when I did my first ‘lsnrctl status’ in 12.2: weird service name… If you have installed 12.2 multitenant, then you have probably seen this strange service name registered in your listener. One per PDB. It is not a bug. It is an internal service used to connect to the remote PDB for features like Proxy PDB. This name is the GUID of the PDB which makes this service independent of the name or the physical location of the PDB. You can use it to connect to the PDB, but should not. It is an internal service name. But on a lab, let’s play with it.

CDB

I have two Container Databases on my system:

18:01:33 SQL> connect sys/oracle@//localhost/CDB2 as sysdba
Connected.
18:01:33 SQL> show pdbs
 
CON_ID CON_NAME OPEN MODE RESTRICTED
------ -------- ---- ---- ----------
2 PDB$SEED READ ONLY NO