After the last few chapters, we now have an operational Oracle database in our virtual machine. If you have been following the advice in the previous chapters, you have implemented some best practices. Hopefully, you have also been reading some of the Oracle documentation that has previously been discussed.
In this chapter, we will discuss how to connect to a running Oracle instance. After all, what good is storing data in a database system if you cannot access it? In this chapter, we will discuss different methods for connecting to Oracle. All of the previous examples in this book required the ...