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Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide
Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide

Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide: Build and manage your Oracle Database 11g XE environment with this fast paced, practical guide with this book and ebook.

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Length 146 pages
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Language : English
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Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide

Chapter 1. Database Editions and Oracle Database XE

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford

This chapter briefly introduces various database editions offered by Oracle Database 11g, and then introduces Oracle Database XE. We will dive into a list of features supported by Oracle Database XE and also discuss the limitations imposed on Oracle Database XE. The topics that will be covered in this chapter are as follows:

  • Available database editions

  • Oracle Database Express Edition

About Oracle

Oracle Corporation is a computer technology company established in 1977. Oracle specializes in developing enterprise software products. Oracle provides database management systems (such as Oracle Database, MySQL, and TimesTen), database development tools (such as Oracle Developer Suite and JDeveloper), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, and so on. With the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle has emerged as a hardware vendor offering Sun hardware under its umbrella.

In the words of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, "Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system — applications to disk — where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability, and security go up." Read the complete story about "Oracle Buys Sun" at http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363.

Available database editions

Oracle Database 11g is available in five editions, namely Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, Express Edition (XE) , and Personal Edition. All editions are built on the same code base. This means we can easily scale up Oracle Express Edition to Standard Edition One to Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition.

To scale up to a higher edition, we would install the new software, open the database in the new edition, run the catalog.sql and catproc.sql scripts, and recompile the stored procedures. This topic is covered in greater detail later in the book.

  • Personal Edition: Personal Edition is available on the Windows platform and it supports single-user development environments.

  • Express Edition (XE):  XE is a small footprint database. It does not require license from Oracle to develop applications on XE. You can deploy and distribute XE freely without paying a penny as a license fee to Oracle. Database features such as Automatic Memory Management (AMM), Advanced Queuing (AQ) , Flashback query, and Data Encryption are supported with XE. There are a few limitations on XE, which we will explore later in the chapter. Support is provided through a free Oracle Discussion Forum (https://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=251&start=0).

  • Standard Edition One (SEO): SEO is a low cost and full featured database for servers. It provides all database features available with XE and adds a few more to its list. SEO is available on Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms. As a license fee you pay $900 to Oracle (for five users) and start using SEO. You pay an additional $180 per user if required. The pricing information provided here is subject to change; refer to Oracle's Global Pricing and Licensing for more details (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/index.html). Database features such as Java Support, Enterprise Manager and Automatic Storage Management (ASM) are included in SEO.

  • Standard Edition (SE): SE is an affordable edition of Oracle database. It is a full-featured database for servers up to four sockets. It can easily scale to Enterprise Edition as demand grows. Database features supported by Standard Edition One are supported by SE and it adds few more to its list. Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Automatic Workload Management (AWM) are two additional database features supported by Standard Edition.

    You pay $1,750 to Oracle towards a license fee, which includes a license for five users. You pay an additional $350 per user if required. It is also compatible with Enterprise Edition and can easily grow with demand. Refer to the Oracle's Global Pricing and Licensing document for more details.

  • Enterprise Edition (EE): This edition of Oracle database comes with a range of database options. EE provides industry leading performance, scalability, and security to your database. With Enterprise Edition you get database features such as Total Recall, Active Data Guard, Flashback Database, Real Application Clusters One-Node, Database Vault, Virtual Private Database, and many other that are not found in other database editions. An additional licensing cost is associated with these database features refer to Oracle's Global Pricing and Licensing for more details.

About Oracle

Oracle Corporation is a computer technology company established in 1977. Oracle specializes in developing enterprise software products. Oracle provides database management systems (such as Oracle Database, MySQL, and TimesTen), database development tools (such as Oracle Developer Suite and JDeveloper), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, and so on. With the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle has emerged as a hardware vendor offering Sun hardware under its umbrella.

In the words of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, "Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system — applications to disk — where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability, and security go up." Read the complete story about "Oracle Buys Sun" at http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363.

Available database editions

Oracle Database 11g is available in five editions, namely Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, Express Edition (XE) , and Personal Edition. All editions are built on the same code base. This means we can easily scale up Oracle Express Edition to Standard Edition One to Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition.

To scale up to a higher edition, we would install the new software, open the database in the new edition, run the catalog.sql and catproc.sql scripts, and recompile the stored procedures. This topic is covered in greater detail later in the book.

  • Personal Edition: Personal Edition is available on the Windows platform and it supports single-user development environments.

  • Express Edition (XE):  XE is a small footprint database. It does not require license from Oracle to develop applications on XE. You can deploy and distribute XE freely without paying a penny as a license fee to Oracle. Database features such as Automatic Memory Management (AMM), Advanced Queuing (AQ) , Flashback query, and Data Encryption are supported with XE. There are a few limitations on XE, which we will explore later in the chapter. Support is provided through a free Oracle Discussion Forum (https://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=251&start=0).

  • Standard Edition One (SEO): SEO is a low cost and full featured database for servers. It provides all database features available with XE and adds a few more to its list. SEO is available on Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms. As a license fee you pay $900 to Oracle (for five users) and start using SEO. You pay an additional $180 per user if required. The pricing information provided here is subject to change; refer to Oracle's Global Pricing and Licensing for more details (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/index.html). Database features such as Java Support, Enterprise Manager and Automatic Storage Management (ASM) are included in SEO.

  • Standard Edition (SE): SE is an affordable edition of Oracle database. It is a full-featured database for servers up to four sockets. It can easily scale to Enterprise Edition as demand grows. Database features supported by Standard Edition One are supported by SE and it adds few more to its list. Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Automatic Workload Management (AWM) are two additional database features supported by Standard Edition.

    You pay $1,750 to Oracle towards a license fee, which includes a license for five users. You pay an additional $350 per user if required. It is also compatible with Enterprise Edition and can easily grow with demand. Refer to the Oracle's Global Pricing and Licensing document for more details.

  • Enterprise Edition (EE): This edition of Oracle database comes with a range of database options. EE provides industry leading performance, scalability, and security to your database. With Enterprise Edition you get database features such as Total Recall, Active Data Guard, Flashback Database, Real Application Clusters One-Node, Database Vault, Virtual Private Database, and many other that are not found in other database editions. An additional licensing cost is associated with these database features refer to Oracle's Global Pricing and Licensing for more details.

Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)

Oracle Database XE is an entry level database available on Windows and Linux operating systems. XE is built with the same code base as Oracle Database 11g Release 2, so scaling XE to other editions can be easily achieved.

Oracle Database XE is a good starter database for DBAs and developers who need a free database for training and deployment. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and hardware vendors can freely distribute Oracle Database XE along with their products, thus adding value to their own products.

Educational institutions can freely use Oracle Database XE for their curriculum. The following are the features of Oracle Database 11g Express Edition:

  • Available on Linux (64-bit) and Windows (32-bit)

  • Installs using native installers

  • Fully upgradeable to other Oracle Database 11g editions

  • Supports Oracle SQL Developer, Oracle Application Express, Java, .NET and Visual Studio, and PHP development environments

Oracle Database 11g Express Edition comes with the following licensing restrictions:

  • Executes on one processor in any size server

  • Supports up to 11GB of user data

  • Uses up to 1GB RAM of available memory in any size server

  • Supports one database per machine

  • HTTPS is not supported natively with the HTTP listener built into Oracle Database XE

Summary

At the end of this chapter, you will have a sound understanding of the various database editions available with Oracle Database 11g. You will also have a good understanding of the database features available with each database edition.

By now, you will also have an understanding of the features offered by Oracle Database 11g XE and also its limitations.

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Key benefits

  • Install and configure Oracle Database XE on Windows and Linux
  • Develop database applications using Oracle Application Express
  • Back up, restore, and tune your database
  • Includes clear step-by-step instructions and examples

Description

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.

What you will learn

Install and uninstall Oracle Database XE on Windows and Linux environment Set up local and remote database connections and resize Oracle SGA Install SQL Developer, access table data, modify table data, understand transaction control statements and most commonly used SQL functions Create and manage database objects like tables, indexes, constraints, views, sequences, and synonyms Develop PL/SQL stored subprograms Create rich and responsive applications using Oracle Application Express Understand Oracle logical and physical components such as SGA, PGA, Tablespaces, and Flash Recovery Area Move data between different Oracle Database XE versions Upgrade Oracle Database Express Edition to other Oracle Database Editions Protect and recover your database Tune the database for optimal performance

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Length 146 pages
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Language : English
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Category :
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Concepts :
Database Programming
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Table of Contents

20 Chapters
Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide
Credits Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Credits
About the Author Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
About the Author
Acknowledgement Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
www.PacktPub.com
Preface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Preface
Database Editions and Oracle Database XE Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Database Editions and Oracle Database XE
About Oracle
Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)
Summary
References
Installing and Uninstalling Oracle Database XE Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Installing and Uninstalling Oracle Database XE
Downloading Oracle Database 11g XE
Installing Oracle Database 11g XE on Windows XP (32-bit)
Uninstalling Oracle Database 11g XE on Windows XP (32-bit)
Installing Oracle Database 11g XE on Oracle Enterprise Linux (64-bit)
Uninstalling Oracle Database 11g XE on Oracle Enterprise Linux (64-bit)
Summary
Connecting and Configuring Oracle Database 11g XE Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Connecting and Configuring Oracle Database 11g XE
Local database connections
Remote database connections
Changing SGA and PGA sizes
Summary
Accessing Table Data, DML Statements, and Transactions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Accessing Table Data, DML Statements, and Transactions
Unlocking sample user accounts
Installing SQL Developer
Connecting SQL Developer to Oracle Database 11g XE
About TAB and DUAL
Writing simple queries
Selecting data from multiple tables
Exploring common functions
What are Transaction Control Statements?
Understanding DML statements
Summary
References
Creating and Managing Schema Objects Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating and Managing Schema Objects
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
Summary
References
Developing Stored Subprograms and Triggers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Developing Stored Subprograms and Triggers
PL/SQL data types
Stored subprograms
Creating stored subprograms
About packages
Exception handling
Wrapping up the PL/SQL stored programs
PL/SQL triggers
Summary
References
Building a Sample Application with Oracle Application Express Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building a Sample Application with Oracle Application Express
What is Oracle Application Express (APEX)?
Creating application users
Loading and unloading data to a text file
Application Express Dashboard
Summary
References
Managing Database and Database Storage Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Database and Database Storage
Memory structure
Automatic Memory Management
Important background processes
Physical and logical database structures
Managing the Flash Recovery Area
Summary
Moving Data between Oracle Databases Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Moving Data between Oracle Databases
Exporting and importing data
Moving data between Oracle Database 10g XE and Oracle Database 11g XE
Exporting data using SQL Developer
Summary
Upgrading Oracle Database 11g XE to Other Database Editions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Upgrading Oracle Database 11g XE to Other Database Editions
Upgrading Oracle Database 11g XE to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition
Summary
Backup and Recovery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Backup and Recovery
Introduction to backup and recovery
Recovery Manager
Connecting to Oracle Database XE using RMAN
The ARCHIVELOG mode
Backing up a database (the NOARCHIVELOG mode)
Simulating a database failure (the NOARCHIVELOG mode)
Restoring the NOARCHIVELOG database
Configuring the RMAN environment
Backing up the ARCHIVELOG database
Simulating a database failure (the ARCHIVELOG mode)
Restoring the ARCHIVELOG database
Summary
References
Tuning Oracle Database 11g XE Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Tuning Oracle Database 11g XE
Performance tuning
Performance tuning approach
Avoiding common pitfalls
Autotrace utility
Explain Plan
Using indexes
Dynamic performance views
Statspack
Summary
References
Features Available with Oracle Database 11g XE Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Features Available with Oracle Database 11g XE
Features available
Features not available

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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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