Chnage Oracle DB name
When was the last time you had to change the name of a database? Long time ago, changing the database name was a big thing. Nowadays not so much anymore! In the case of a database refresh, RMAN takes care of that for you, during the cloning process. But, I am not referring to changing database name for a refresh purpose. What I am referring to in my question today, is actually changing the name of a database, let’s say from HRPROD to HRPRD, on purpose, and not through refresh or clone. Now you might be asking me, why would you do that? I’ll let you know, why I did it, just keep on reading! I was upgrading a database to 19c. The method I was using was to create an empty 19c database, export the required schemas from the older version, and import into the newly created database. The only issue was that the new database and the old one were on the same server, and having a different database name was out of the question. This is why, I ended up changing the database name, as the last step...