Connecting to Oracle Database in SQL Developer shows only my pluggable databases and NOT the template - PDB$SEED

Question

all,

First question of mine and I cannot find the answer anywhere for ~6 hours now so if it has already been asked/answered, I am sorry.

I am following this guide even though it is for 12c and I am using Oracle Express Edition 21c currently.

I have created my pluggable databases, configured my listener.ora/tnsnames.ora files AND connected to the database both via sqlplus and via Oracle SQL Developer and I cannot seem to find the PDB$SEED template in the "Container Database" folder in DBA navigation menu as seen on the attached SS: NOPDB$SEED

My pdbs in sqlplus look like this: PDBS

Other information that might be useful is listener.ora file and tnsnames.ora file . I am using Oracle Server 8.4 as well.

EDIT: SELECT name, open_mode FROM v$pdbs ORDER BY name;

Thank you for the help beforehand and if there is anything more that I should provide, I will.

Answer 1

If you really want to see PDB$SEED use the V$-Views (eg V$DATAFILE). But as Roberto Hernandez already noted: what do you you want from that thing besides look at it? You are not allowed to change anything in it, not even take it readwrite - and if you finally achive to get rid of it, congratulations, you have damaged your database :-)