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Click ORACLE DATABASE 10g EXPRESS EDITION FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS.. Under Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Western European, click ORACLEXE.EXE.. The primary application in this directo

3 Click the FREE DOWNLOAD button.

4 Click ORACLE DATABASE 10g EXPRESS EDITION FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS

5 Click ACCEPT LICENSE AGREEMENT

6 Under Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Western European), click ORACLEXE.EXE

7 You may then be asked a series of questions, asking if you want allow various procedures to execute Respond RUN to all questions

8 If you don’t have an account with Oracle, click SIGN UP NOW Otherwise, enter your username and password and then enter personal information

9 When asked if you want to run or save the file, select the RUN button The install setup wizard will then start

10 On the Welcome screen, click the NEXT button

11 On the License screen, click ACCEPT and then the NEXT button

12 On the Destination screen, click the NEXT button

13 On the Database Passwords screen, enter a password

14 On Summary screen, click INSTALL

15 After the install completes, click the FINISH button

After this has completed, you will have the following software installed: Oracle Database 10g Express Edition

The interface to the database is Web based The various features are accessible under the Start menu under the Oracle Database 10g Express directory The primary application in this directory that you’ll want to use is Go To Database Home Page

After the initial install, you will be taken to a Database Login screen on the Database Home Page This is the same page you would enter by selecting GO TO DATABASE HOME PAGE under the Oracle Database 10g Express Edition directory under the Start menu

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After going to this Database Home Page, enter the user name SYSTEM and the

password you created; then click the LOGIN button

Using Oracle Database Express Edition

To gain access to the Oracle database, run the GO TO DATABASE HOME PAGE

program under the Oracle Database 10g Express Edition directory in the start

menu This will open up a Web-based application, which will allow you to

interface with the database

To sign on, enter a username of SYSTEM, the password you specified during the

install, and then click the LOGIN button

You will then see four icons representing different functionalities:

Administra-tion, Object Browser, SQL, and Utilities To execute SQL, click the SQL icon

You will then see three icons: SQL Commands, SQL Scripts, and Query Builder

If you want to execute a single SQL statement, you can use the SQL Commands

icon This will allow you to execute a single command and see any results If you

enter multiple SQL statements, you can highlight one individual statement and

execute only the highlighted portion To execute a SQL statement in the SQL

Commands window, click the RUN button

If you want to execute multiple SQL statements, but you don’t need to see the

output, you can use the SQL Scripts icon After selecting this icon, you can either

create a new script or edit an existing script To create a new script, click the

CREATE button and then name the script and enter the statements you want in

that script To execute, click the RUN button After you enter the request, it will

ask for a confirmation to do the run Click the RUN button again You will then

be able to see a summary of your script execution by clicking on the icon under

the View Results column

Oracle provides complete online documentation on their database Their

reference manuals are currently at:

http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112

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appendix D

Listing of All SQL

Statements

A listing of all SQL statements in this book can be found on this Cengage Web site: www.courseptr.com/downloads

These three files are provided:

■ SQL Statements and Data for SQL Server.doc

■ SQL Statements and Data for MySQL.doc

■ SQL Statements and Data for Oracle.doc

These three files list all SQL statements in the book for each of the three databases covered Additionally, these files contain SQL scripts that allow you to create all the data used in the book After running the setup scripts, you can execute any statement in the book and see the same output shown in the book

Specific instructions on how to execute the setup scripts are provided in each of the files

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