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Migrating an Oracle database to another server
There are several situations when you have to migrate your Oracle databases to a new server. This could be due to hardware lifecycle reasons for on-prem systems or you need to upgrade your Operating System (OS) from Enterprise Linux 8 to Enterprise Linux 9. In this blog I wanted to talk about my recommended methods…
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Running an Oracle Database 19c on Apple Silicon (Apple Macbook Air M1)
By end of June 2023 Oracle announced the availability of Oracle 19c for the Arm-architecture (aarch64). Consultants and DBAs, who do use a Mac Laptop with Apple Silicon (M1 or M2), have waited quite a long time to run an Oracle database in a Sandbox environment on their Apple machine. The database software Oracle 19c…
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Running Intel x86-64 VMs with an Oracle DB on Apple Silicon (ARM)
For testing purposes many IT-people traditionally use Virtual Machines (VMs) on their Laptops (often on Oracle Virtualbox). Since Apple moved to its own processor type (Apple Silicon, i.e. ARM architecture), it’s no longer possible to run VMs based on Intel x86-64 on Apple ARM (e.g. on Apple MacBook Pros with M1 or M2 processors). I.e.…