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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

Local database connections


Establishing a connection locally means running the SQL command-line utility on the same computer where Oracle Database 11g XE is installed, and initiating a database connection command using the valid database credentials.

The following screenshot is taken from Oracle Database 11g XE on Windows, and demonstrates establishing a local database connection to the database:

Navigate to the Oracle Database 11g XE database home and start the sqlplus session with the /nolog option. Using the connect statement establish a connection to the database by supplying the valid database username and password. As shown in the preceding screenshot, connect as SYSTEM user with the password entered while installing Oracle Database 11g XE.

ORA_DBA is a local Windows group that gets automatically created when you install Oracle Database XE and your Windows username automatically gets added to this group. Members of ORA_DBA can connect to the Oracle Database XE without a password, as...