Finding a Test Oracle Database

We are going to hit the ground running. I hope you already have access to the SYS account on your database. If not, I hope you are good friends with the database administrator (DBA) for the server, and that you are recognized as a database security administrator. If so, you can ask your DBA friend to do the small portion of this work that must be done by SYS or a DBA.

If you'd like to learn the concepts in this chapter, but you don't want to use a managed server—and if you have sufficient computer power in your personal workstation—then you can download and install the Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition server and do the tasks that I describe in this chapter locally. I highly recommend that approach in any case, ...

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