Drop PDB (Pluggable database) from RAC CDB (Container Database) in Oracle 12c

Scope:
This post explains the easy steps to remove the Plugabble database from RAC Container database.

Drop Pluggable database from RAC Container Database

Steps:

1. Remove the Dynamic PDB services.
2. Close all PDB instances.
3. Drop the pluggable database.

Steps in detail:

Remove the Dynamic PDB services

$srvctl remove service -db <Contaner Database Name> -service <Service_Name>.

Close all PDB instances

Login to SQL container database and close all PDB instances

$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba"

SQL> alter pluggable database <PDB_name> close instance=ALL;

Drop the pluggable database

Login to SQL container database and run drop command with/without including datafiles.

$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba"

SQL> drop pluggable database <PDB_name> including Datafiles;