From the course: Oracle 12c: New Features

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Connect to the CDB

Connect to the CDB - Oracle Database Tutorial

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Connect to the CDB

- [Narrator] Once you have configured your Oracle database as a CDB, or container database, connecting to it is similar to what you knew from previous Oracle versions, such as Oracle 11G. Let's show this by opening a terminal window. First of all, the Oracle SID parameter, which you have used previously to connect to your Oracle instance, still remains and has a similar effect. For example, in my environment, which is a simple Oracle VM, installed locally on my MAC, I can see by looking at the Oracle pmon process that the Oracle instance I have created has an SID of ORCL. Setting the Oracle SID environment variable to ORCL and connecting as SYSBDA still works as the way it was in previous Oracle versions. However, now that you know about the multi-tenant architecture of Oracle 12c, you might ask yourself, to which container exactly did I just connect? Well, let's check it out. We have a couple of ways of showing the container to which we have connected. First is by running the show…

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