Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide

by Asif Momen

Build and manage your Oracle Database 11g XE environment with this fast paced, practical guide In Detail 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 from this book Approach This book discusses concepts and tasks through real-world examples. The author uses simple language, screenshots, and a step-by-step approach to get you started with Oracle Database administration. Who this book is written for If you are a student or beginner who is learning to administer Oracle Database, then this book is for you. This book is designed to cover the problems that novice DBAs particularly struggle with, so no prior knowledge of Oracle database administration is expected.

146 pages, Paperback

First published July 8, 2012

Reviews

[Ajitabh Pandey · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you don't know anything about Oracle and you want to start learning by using XE, then this is the first book to use to get started. This book only enables you to start up and give you some basics. However, if you have no RDBMS experience then you may find this a little too brief.

The author has used Windows's installation of XE for his examples, which first time users may find a little confusion occasionally because the path etc differs between Windows and Linux. But this only the case where physical file system layout related examples are concerned. For queries executed on SQL prompt it's all the same, well mostly.