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Published inJul 2012
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PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781849686747
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Asif Momen
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Asif Momen

Asif Momen has been working with Oracle technologies for over 12 years and has expertise in Database Architecture, Performance Tuning, and High Availability. He has a Master's degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani. Asif is honored by the prestigious Oracle ACE award from Oracle Technology Network. He has the following certifications: OCP 11g DBA, OCP 9i Forms Developer and is an Oracle Certified Expert in RAC 10g. Asif is a presenter for conferences like Oracle OpenWorld-2010, All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG), and Brain Surface. In addition, he is the Member of Editorial Board of "Oracle Connect"the quarterly publication of AIOUG and Select magazine of the United Kingdom Oracle User Group (UKOUG) His articles have also appeared in Oracle Support - Customer Knowledge Exchange . His particular interests are Database & SQL tuning, Oracle RAC and Backup & Recovery. He posts his ideas and opinions on The Momen Blog (http://momendba.blogspot.com). Asif can be reached at asif.momen@gmail.com.
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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.

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Asif Momen

Asif Momen has been working with Oracle technologies for over 12 years and has expertise in Database Architecture, Performance Tuning, and High Availability. He has a Master's degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani. Asif is honored by the prestigious Oracle ACE award from Oracle Technology Network. He has the following certifications: OCP 11g DBA, OCP 9i Forms Developer and is an Oracle Certified Expert in RAC 10g. Asif is a presenter for conferences like Oracle OpenWorld-2010, All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG), and Brain Surface. In addition, he is the Member of Editorial Board of "Oracle Connect"the quarterly publication of AIOUG and Select magazine of the United Kingdom Oracle User Group (UKOUG) His articles have also appeared in Oracle Support - Customer Knowledge Exchange . His particular interests are Database & SQL tuning, Oracle RAC and Backup & Recovery. He posts his ideas and opinions on The Momen Blog (http://momendba.blogspot.com). Asif can be reached at asif.momen@gmail.com.
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