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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 ASM on vSphere VMFS

Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect DBAs often ask me about the different layers involved when presenting storage to Oracle ASM on VMware. In the image

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Active Data Guard Licensing

by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect In Oracle Database version 11g, a new feature called Active Data Guard (ADG) was introduced.  This feature extends traditional Data

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