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Oracle Java 17 Is No Longer Free: What You Need to Know

In September of 2021 Oracle released their distribution of Java 17 under the No Fee Terms and Conditions (NFTC) license. This was most likely a response to the severe backlash from their April 2019 decision to start charging for Java licenses. Under this NFTC license Oracle Java was seemingly magically free again, although there were many Terms and Conditions that still needed to be adhered to. One of the conditions of note was that one

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Oracle RAC Alternatives in AWS

Why Run RAC? Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is a way of accessing a database from multiple database servers. This provides some added High Availability (HA)

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Flexible Oracle Database Naming

Over the years I have been involved in several Oracle database migration projects where all databases are moving from point A to point B. When doing these moves the TNS naming and the

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