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COMP 3611: Database Systems 1

Open Learning Oracle Server Access


This document describes the process for Open Learning students in COMP3611
to access and use the Open Learning Oracle database server.

SQL Developer Download


1. Oracle SQL Developer is an IDE for working with an Oracle database. This
tool is free for student use. It can be obtained at:
https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/sql-developer.html

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2. Click the Download button. Note that you must click to Accept the License
Agreement at the top of the page before you can download any of the
software. There are versions available for Windows 64-bit with JDK 8
included, Windows 32-bit/64-bit (if you already have JDK 8 installed), Mac
OSX, and Linux RPM.

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3. When you click one of the download options you will be prompted to sign in
to the Oracle Technet system. If you have an Oracle id from a previous
download (e.g. JDK for Java programming courses), use that. Otherwise you
will have to use the Create Account option.

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4. For most systems, the download is a .zip compressed folder. Do an ‘Extract


all’ on the .zip. Note this is a huge .zip that may take 10 minutes or more to
extract. You will find the SQL Developer application within the resulting
folder as follows. Move the folder to an appropriate location on your PC and
create a shortcut if you like.

Sign in to the TRU VPN


You must sign on to the TRU Virtual Private Network every time you wish to
use SQL Developer to access the Oracle server for this course. Use
https://mytruvpn.tru.ca with your TRU network user name and password. You
must have full network access (not just web access) after you login. Keep the
VPN connection open for the entire time you are using SQL Developer.

More info on using the TRU VPN is available at


http://www.tru.ca/its/students/student-remote-access.html

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Setting up SQL Developer

1. Make sure you have the TRU VPN open, then start the SQL Developer
application. You should see the following

2. Click the Create a Connection Manually button and you should see the
following

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3. Make the Connection Name COMP3611. Use the Username and Password
supplied by your OLFM in their welcome email. Don’t click Save Password as
the password supplied should be changed in step 4 to something relevant to
you. The Hostname is studentdb.tru.ca, the Port is 1521 and the SID is
OLSTUDB1.

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4. You should now see the schema navigation tree and query panel as below.

5. To ensure everything is setup correctly, you should type each of the


commands shown below and have achieved the same result.

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6. If you click the two blue circular arrows (Refresh), The navigation panel
should show a + next to Tables, which you can drill down to see the new
TEST table and its contents.

7. Finally, change your password by executing the command


ALTER USER T######## IDENTIFIED BY $$$$$$$$;
where ######## is your TRU id number and $$$$$$$$ is the new password
that you wish to use on the database server. Note: Oracle command syntax
uses a lot of special characters, only use letters and digits (minimum of 8).

8. As a final check, you should shutdown SQLDeveloper, then start it again


with the new password.

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