Plugging an Unplugged Pluggable Database

Unplugging the PDB

To unplug a PDB, you first close it and then generate an XML manifest file. The XML file contains information about the names and the full paths of the tablespaces, datafiles of the unplugged PDB. The information will be used by the plugging operation.
We are going to unplug the PDB to plug them with No copy methods.

[oracle@localhost pdb3]$ . oraenv
ORACLE_SID = [cdb1] ? cdb1
The Oracle base remains unchanged with value /u01/app/oracle

[oracle@localhost pdb3]$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL> show con_name

CON_NAME
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