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Practice 9 Creating a Proxy PDB Pa ge |1

Practice 9: Creating a Proxy PDB

Practice Overview
In this practice you will create a proxy PDB. You will then perform basic testing on it.

Practice Assumptions
• You have the CDB1 (in srv1) and CDB2 (in srv2) databases up and running.

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Creating a Proxy PDB

In the following steps, you will create a proxy PDB called PDB2PXY in the machine srv2. It points to
PDB2 in srv1 machine.

1. Connect to the root of CDB2 database as SYSDBA.

2. Verify that the database link to CDB1 is valid and working. If it is not there, create one.
export ORACLE_SID=CDB2
sqlplus / as sysdba
SELECT SYSDATE FROM DUAL@CDB1_LNK;
-- if it isn’t there, create the database link as follows:
CREATE DATABASE LINK cdb1_lnk CONNECT TO system IDENTIFIED BY oracle USING
'CDB1';

3. In srv2, define the OMF at the session level.


ALTER SESSION SET DB_CREATE_FILE_DEST='/u01/app/oracle/oradata';

4. Create the proxy PDB and then open it.


CREATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb2pxy AS PROXY FROM pdb2@cdb1_lnk;
ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb2pxy OPEN;

5. Verify that the new PDB is a proxy PDB.


SELECT PDB_NAME, CON_ID, IS_PROXY_PDB FROM CDB_PDBS WHERE PDB_NAME='PDB2PXY';

6. In srv2, switch the current container to the new proxy PDB.


ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER= pdb2pxy;

7. Display the current container name.


SHOW CON_NAME
The command should return the following errors:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
ORA-02063: preceding line from PROXYPDB$DBLINK
Those errors are returned when you connect to the root using OS authentication and then switch to a
proxy PDB. If you connect to the root using the service login authentication, you should be alright. It
is not an expected behavior. Let’s try the workaround.

8. Connect to the root using its service name and try re-executing the same statement.
The proxy PDB is seen by the users who are connected to it as PDB2.
conn sys/oracle@//srv2:1521/CDB2 as sysdba
ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER= pdb2pxy;
SHOW CON_NAME

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9. Retrieve list of the datafiles of the proxy PDB.


Observe that the proxy PDB has copies of the SYSTEM, SYSAUX and UNDO tablespace datafiles.
The other tablespaces will remain in the referenced PDB.
Do not use the CDB_DATA_FILES view to obtain the required list. It reports the datafiles in the
referenced PDB.
The code below assumes that the CON_ID of PDB2 is 4. Change it accordingly, if this is not true in
your case.
conn sys/oracle@//srv2:1521/CDB2 as sysdba
SELECT T.NAME TABLESPACE_NAME, D.NAME
FROM V$TABLESPACE T, V$DATAFILE D
WHERE T.TS# = D.TS# AND T.CON_ID=4 AND D.CON_ID=4;

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Testing the Proxy PDB functionality

In the following steps, you will test the proxy PDB that you created in the previous section. You will create
a user in the PDB, insert data into a testing table from the referenced PDB, insert data into the same table
from the proxy PDB, and examine the result.

10. In srv1, login as SYSDBA to PDB2 and create a testing user in it. Grant create session and create
table privileges to the user.
sqlplus / as sysdba
ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER=PDB2;
CREATE USER tuser IDENTIFIED BY oracle
DEFAULT TABLESPACE users
QUOTA UNLIMITED ON users;
GRANT CREATE SESSION, CREATE TABLE TO tuser;

11. Connect to PDB2 using the newly created user, create a test table, and insert a row in it.
conn tuser/oracle@//srv1:1521/pdb2.localdomain
CREATE TABLE tb1 (id NUMBER, notes varchar2(20));
INSERT INTO tb1 VALUES (1,'from PDB2');
COMMIT;

12. Connect to PDB2PXY and insert a row into the testing table.
Note: connecting to proxy PDB using the local user tuser will return the following error:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
This is not the expected behavior and I believe it is a bug. The workaround is to log as SYSDBA using
password authentication and then switch the current container to PDB2PXY, as shown in the following
block code.
CONN sys/oracle@//srv2:1521/CDB2 as sysdba
ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER= pdb2pxy;
INSERT INTO tuser.tb1 VALUES (2,'from pdb2pxy');
COMMIT;

13. Query the testing table in both PDBs:


SHOW CON_NAME
SELECT * FROM TUSER.TB1;
conn tuser/oracle@//srv1:1521/pdb2.localdomain
SELECT * FROM tb1;

Note
Do not drop CDB2 at this stage. You will use it in the next practice.

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Summary
• When users connected to a proxy PDB make data manipulation, the changes will actually affect
the referenced PDB.
• Physically, the proxy PDB has copies of the datafiles of the SYSTEM, SYSAUX, and UNDO
tablespaces. They will automatically get synchronized with the referenced PDB.
• When you want to switch the current container to a proxy PDB, first log in to the root using
username/password credential rather than using the OS authentication.

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