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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

Chapter 5. Creating and Managing Schema Objects

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. - Brian Tracy

In this chapter we will discuss various schema objects such as tables, indexes, and views. We will also learn how to create, modify, and drop schema objects using the CREATE, ALTER, and DROP statements. At the end of this chapter, we will discuss the importance of object statistics and how to gather statistics. The topics that will be covered in this chapter are as follows:

  • Data Definition Language

  • Creating and managing tables

  • Creating and managing indexes

  • Integrity constraints

  • Creating and managing views

  • Creating and managing synonyms

  • Creating and managing sequences

  • Gathering statistics

Data Definition Language

Statements that create, modify, or change schema objects are termed as Data Definition Language (DDL) statements. The CREATE, ALTER, and DROP statements are examples of DDL statements. We create a new schema object using the CREATE...