Beginning Oracle SQL for Oracle Database 18c: From Novice to Professional

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2. Setting Up

Ben Brumm¹ 

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Melbourne, VIC, Australia

 

This chapter introduces you to the different tools we’ll use in this book, and shows you how to download and set them up. You’ll create a table and set up some sample data as well.

What Tools Do We Need?

We’ll use two different tools to teach Oracle SQL in this book: Oracle Express, and Oracle SQL Developer. Oracle Express is a smaller version of Oracle’s enterprise-level database. The Express Edition, or Oracle Express, is free and easy to set up. It’s popular with people learning Oracle SQL and for creating their own projects at home.

Oracle SQL Developer is a program developed by ...