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From my present Oracle Database 12c New Features course in Zürich: We have introduced the handy new functionality that you can move datafiles online in 12c. That is at first glance having an issue for pluggable databases:

SQL> @whoami
USER: SYS
SESSION ID: 253
CURRENT_SCHEMA: SYS
INSTANCE NAME: cdb1
CDB NAME: cdb1
CONTAINER NAME: CDB$ROOT
DATABASE ROLE: PRIMARY
OS USER: oracle

SQL> select name from v$datafile;

NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/cdb1/system01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/cdb1/sysaux01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/cdb1/undotbs01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/cdb1/pdbseed/system01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/cdb1/users01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/cdb1/pdbseed/sysaux01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/pdb1_1/system01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/pdb1_1/sysaux01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/pdb1_1/SAMPLE_SCHEMA_users01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/pdb1_1/example01.dbf

10 rows selected.

SQL> alter database move datafile '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/pdb1_1/example01.dbf' to '/home/oracle/example01.dbf';
alter database move datafile '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/pdb1_1/example01.dbf' to '/home/oracle/example01.dbf'
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01516: nonexistent log file, data file, or temporary file "11"

The error message is quite useless in this case. It works, but you need to be in the PDBs container where the datafile belongs to:

SQL> alter session set container=pdb1_1;

Session altered.

SQL> alter database move datafile '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/pdb1_1/example01.dbf' to '/home/oracle/example01.dbf';

Database altered.

SQL> select name from v$datafile;

NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/cdb1/undotbs01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/pdb1_1/system01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/pdb1_1/sysaux01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/pdb1_1/SAMPLE_SCHEMA_users01.dbf
/home/oracle/example01.dbf

Don’t believe it (even error messages may lie!), test it 🙂