By Franck Pachot . I’ve heard and read people saying that the PostgreSQL managed service is not the true open-source PostgreSQL from the community. This is wrong and I’m writing this post to clarify it. PostgreSQL on EC2 Obviously, you can install PostgreSQL on an EC2 instance, as a database running on IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). You have the…
By Franck Pachot . When I’m writing about a product I like to be precise about the name, the upper and lower case, and even more: do you know that was taking special care of writing Oracle 12cR2 before then non-italic came with 18c? And that’s also the reason I’m not writing a lot about VMware as it takes me…
By Franck Pachot . Note that I’ve written previously about Oracle Standard Edition 2 licensing before but a few rules change. This is written in May 2020. TL;DR: 4 vCPU count for 1 socket and 2 sockets count for 1 server wherever hyper-threading is enabled or not. The SE2 rules I think the Standard Edition rules are quite clear now:…
