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Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide

By : Asif Momen
Book Image

Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide

By: Asif Momen

Overview of this book

Oracle Database XE 11gR2 is an excellent beginner-level database and is a great platform to learn database concepts. "Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide" helps you to install, administer, maintain, tune, back up and upgrade your Oracle Database Express Edition. The book also helps you to build custom database applications using Oracle Application Express.Using this book, you will be able to install Oracle Database XE on Windows/Linux operating system.This book helps you understand different database editions and it guides you through the installation procedure with the aid of screenshots. You will learn to interact with the database objects. You will gain a solid understanding of stored sub-programs which is followed by an introduction to Oracle Application Express (APEX). Solid database performance tuning strategies are also discussed in this book followed by backup and recovery scenarios. All in all, "Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide" delivers everything that you should know to get started with Oracle Database administration.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Installing SQL Developer


SQL Developer is a graphical tool that enables us to interact with an Oracle database. Using SQL Developer we can query, create/modify/drop database objects, run SQL statements, write PL/SQL stored procedures, and more.

SQL Developer is a separate tool not bundled with Oracle Database 11g XE. SQL Developer is free to download. You can download SQL Developer by following this link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/.

Installing SQL Developer on Windows and Linux is very straightforward and effortless. The following is the procedure to install in a Windows environment:

  1. 1. Unzip the sqldeveloper-3.1.06.82.zip to a folder.

  2. 2. Navigate to the new folder sqldeveloper created by the ZIP file and double-click on the sqldeveloper.exe file. That's it, we are done.