Oracle 12c - need to start container AND pluggable databases
From : blog .contractoracle. com/2013/06/ oracle-12c-need-to-start-container-and. html Oracle 12c - need to start container AND pluggable databases. In Oracle 12c we start the Container Database (CDB) the same as we started previous database versions. [oracle@rac1 lib]$ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.1.0 Production on Thu Jun 27 14:47:35 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2013, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to an idle instance. SQL> startup ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 1653518336 bytes Fixed Size 2289016 bytes Variable Size 989856392 bytes Database Buffers 654311424 bytes Redo Buffers 7061504 bytes Database mounted. Database opened. But then we find that the Pluggable Databases (PDBs) are still in "MOUNTED" ...