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Installing Oracle 23c Free developer release on Proxmox

Oracle provides an OVA (Open Virtual Appliance) file to install the 23c Free Developer Release on Virtualbox. An OVA file contains metadata and file elements in the Open Virtual Format (OVF) to package and distribute one or more virtual(…)

An always free 4 vCPU 3.0 GHz 24 GB RAM on OCI

By Franck Pachot . Oracle Cloud free tier is already outstanding since OOW19 with two VMs and two databases that you can leave always running without any risk of being billed or seeing them stopped. I(…)

PostgreSQL on Linux: what is cached?

By Franck Pachot . In a recent tweet I wanted to highlight the importance of knowing what you measure with pgbench, because looking at “Transactions per second” without knowing if you are in shared buffer cache hits, or filesystem(…)

Always free / always up tmux in the Oracle Cloud with KSplice updates

By Franck Pachot . I used to have many VirtualBox VMs on my laptop. But now, most of my labs are in the Cloud. Easy access from everywhere. GCP There’s the Google Cloud free VM which is not(…)

A free persistent Google Cloud service with Oracle XE

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I've listed several free online services which run an Oracle XE so that you can test your SQL easily. You may want use Oracle XE further, with full(…)