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Oracle Database 11g Express Edition

Hello and welcome to this online, self-paced course titled Oracle Database 11g Express Edition. My
name is Anupama Mandya, and I am part of Oracle Corporation’s Curriculum Development team.

In this course, using demonstrations, I will guide you through the new features, user interfaces and tools
that are available to use and work with the product.

Slide 2: Using The Player

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Slide 3: About This Course

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Slide 4: About Oracle Database 11g Express Edition:

Lets take a look at what Oracle Database 11g Express Edition is. Oracle Database 11g Express Edition is a
free version of the world's most capable relational database. Oracle Database Express Edition
11g Release 2 (Oracle Database XE in short) is an entry-level, small-footprint database based on the
Oracle Database 11g Release 2. It's free to develop, deploy, and distribute; fast to download; and simple
to administer. With Oracle Database Express Edition, you use an intuitive, browser-based interface to
administer the database, create tables, views, and other database objects, import, export, and view
table data, run queries and SQL scripts, and generate reports.

Oracle Database Express Edition is a great starter database:

For Developers working on PHP, Java, .NET, XML, and Open Source applications

For DBAs who need a free, starter database for training and deployment

For Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and hardware vendors who want a starter database to
distribute free of charge and also

For Educational institutions and students who need a free database for their curriculum.

Slide 5: How to Download and Install the Database

First, lets look at how the database can be downloaded and installed.

Oracle Database 11g Express Edition is available for download from the Oracle Technology Network
web-site at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe. Click Free Download and follow
the instructions to select and download the database. It is available for installation on Microsoft
Windows and Linux platforms.

Slide 6: Demo - Windows Installation

Slide 7: Demo - Linux Installation

Slide 8: Get Started With Oracle Database 11g Express Edition

Introduction:

Moving on, let us get started with Oracle Database 11g Express Edition. Before you begin using Oracle
Database 11g Express Edition, you need to know the various options that are available for you to
connect and work with the database. Oracle Database Express Edition provides an Oracle database and
tools for managing the database. There are four different ways for you to manage, access, manipulate
and develop applications against the database. They are:

1. System Menu Commands

3. Oracle SQL Command Line

4. Oracle SQL Developer

Database: This represents Oracle Database 11g Express Edition. The layers around the core represent
the different options available to access, configure and manage the database.

Menu Commands: The System Menu Commands consists of a set of menu options for performing
various operations on the database. These options allow you to manage the newly installed database
and also provide you with options to get help about the Database.

Database Home Page: The Database Home Page which is a web browser based interface allows you to
perform various database administration operations.

SQL Command Line: The SQL Command Line Utility also called as SQL *Plus allows you to connect to the
database and execute SQL Commands/queries against the database.

Oracle SQL Developer: Oracle SQL Developer is a graphical tool that enables you to work with the
Express Edition database.

Slide 9: About System Menu Commands

Overview:

Lets take a look at the user interfaces and tools to work with the database in a bit more detail.

The first user interface option to Oracle Database Express Edition is System Menu Commands.

To access the major features of Oracle Database Express Edition, use the system menu commands as
follows:

■ On Windows, from the Start menu, select Programs (or All Programs), then Oracle Database 11g
Express Edition.

■ On Linux, click the Application menu (on Gnome) or the K menu (on KDE), then point to Oracle
Database 11g Express Edition.

You can then select from the submenu items. Each tab shown here is the submenu item that appears in
the system menu commands.

Get Help: You find three menu options under the "Get Help" sub-menu. They are:

- Go To Online Forum which displays the online forum for discussions about Oracle Database 11g XE.

- Read Documentation which displays the Oracle Database XE documentation library on the Internet.
And

- Register For Online Forum which allows users to register for the Oracle Database XE online forum

Backup Database: Creates a back up of the database based on the archive log mode of the database. In
NOARCHIVELOG mode (which is the default), it shuts down the database, backs it up, and then restarts
it. In ARCHIVELOG mode, it performs an online backup of the database.

Get Started :

Displays the Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Home Page which is a web-browser based interface for
performing various database administration operations.

Restore Database:

This shuts down and then restores the database to the most recent backup

Run SQL Command Line:

This starts the Oracle SQL Command Line Utility for Oracle Database 11g XE.

Start Database:

Starts Oracle Database Express Edition if it is currently stopped. By default, the database is started for
you after installation and every time your computer is restarted. However, to reduce the overall
performance load on the system, you can manually stop the database, and then manually restart it later.
(If the database is not currently stopped, an informational message is displayed that the database is
already started.)

Demo: Start Database

Stop Database:

Stops Oracle Database 11g Express Edition if it is currently started.

Demo: Stop Database

Slide 10 : Database Home Page

Overview:

The other user interface option to Oracle Database 11g Express Edition is the Database Home Page. The
Database home page is an intuitive Web browser-based interface for performing various database
administration operations, including the following:

1. Monitoring database storage which allows the database administrator to monitor the storage
options in the database.
 2. Monitoring database sessions which involves monitoring and managing the current database
sessions.

3. Viewing and modifying the database initialization parameters and

4. Getting started with Oracle Application Express (APEX) -which is an Oracle product that enables
you to build applications against the database.

To access the database home page, follow these steps:

1. Navigate the system menu as follows:

a. On Windows, from the Start menu, select Programs (or All Programs), then Oracle Database
11g Express Edition, and then Get Started.

b. On Linux, click the Application menu (on Gnome) or the K menu (on KDE), and then point to
Oracle Database 11g Express Edition, and then Get Started.

2. The Oracle Database Express Edition home page appears and then

3. Click on each of the tabs to view the various operations that can be performed.

Demo: Database Home Page

You will be taken to the login page when you click on any of the tabs in the Database Home Page. In this
demonstration you log in as the System user and understand the various database administration
operations. Follow the instructions to perform the steps in the demonstration.

Slide 11 : About Oracle SQL Command Line Utility

Overview:

Moving on, lets take a look at the tools that are available to work with the database. Oracle SQL
Command Line and Oracle SQL Developer are two such tools that are used to work with the database.

Oracle SQL Command Line Utility also previously called as SQL *Plus is an interactive and batch query
tool that is installed with Oracle Database 11g Express Edition. It has a command-line user interface
that acts as the client when connecting to the database. It enables :

• In Formatting, performing calculations on, storing, and printing query results

• In Examining tables and object definitions

• In Developing and running batch scripts and

• In Performing database administration

In the next topic, you learn how to connect to the database using the Command Line tool
Demo: Connecting to the Database using Command Line

In this demonstration you connect to Oracle Database 11g Express Edition as the System user using
Oracle SQL Command Line Utility tool.

Slide 12: Oracle SQL Developer

Download and Installation

Oracle SQL Developer is a graphical tool that enables you to browse, create, edit, and delete (drop)
database objects; run SQL statements and scripts; edit and debug PL/SQL code; export and import data;
migrate third-party databases to Oracle; and view metadata and data.

Oracle SQL Developer is not installed with Oracle Database 11g Express Edition. Hence, you must
download and install the latest release of Oracle SQL Developer separately.

To download and install Oracle SQL Developer, you need to:

• Go to the Oracle Technology Network page for SQL Developer

• Click the Downloads tab (next to Overview)

• Read and accept the license agreement and

• Follow the instructions for downloading and installing the product

Getting Started with SQL Developer:

To get started using Oracle SQL Developer to create and work with objects and schemas in the XE
database, you have to follow these major steps:

• Start Oracle SQL Developer product that you have installed

• Create some database connections and

• Connect to the database and work with database objects

Demo: Creating Database Connection using SQL Developer

Slide 13: Course Review

Well! We have now come to the end of this session. Thank you for taking this course. In this course we
talked about:

1. Downloading and Installing Oracle Database 11g Express Edition on Microsoft

Slide 14 : How Can I Learn More?

To learn more about Oracle Database 11g Express Edition, visit the above Oracle websites. Thanks again!