Setting Up Your Environment

In this section, I will cover how to set up an environment capable of executing the examples in this book. Specifically:

  • How to setup the EODA account used for many of the examples in this book
  • How to set up the SCOTT/TIGER demonstration schema properly
  • The environment you need to have up and running
  • Configuring AUTOTRACE, a SQL*Plus facility
  • Installing StatsPack
  • Installing and running runstats, and other custom utilities used throughout the book
  • The coding conventions I use in this book

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