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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(…)

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(…)