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Fedora 45 was released a few days ago. Before we go further you need to read this warning… Here are the Oracle installations I worked through on Fedora 45. Similar to Fedora 44, the only real gotcha was 21c, which required a downgrade of the binutils package to install. As explained in the first link, …

Along with the new Oracle patches comes VirtualBox 7.2.22. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both seem OK. Vagrant If you are into Vagrant you can find my builds here. If you are new to Vagrant, you might want to check out this article. Cheers Tim…

Yesterday was an Oracle community day called the Joel Kallman Day (#JoelKallmanDay) 2026. I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who took the time to join in. Here is the list of posts I saw. If I missed you out, give me a shout and I’ll add you.  Thanks to everyone who …

As my entry for #JoelKallmanDay 2026, I thought I would write about the continuous delivery of Oracle database features. Quick history lesson In the past there used to be quite a slow release cycle for the database. It varied a lot over the years, but it moved towards a first and second release of each …