Using This Book's Support Files

All subsequent chapters in this book contain hands-on exercises that provide you with invaluable experience using Oracle XE. At the beginning of most chapters, a section called "Chapter Prerequisites" explains the steps necessary to prepare for the chapter's exercises. Typically, you'll be asked to use Oracle's SQL *Plus utility to run a SQL command script that builds a practice schema for the chapter, complete with a set of tables and other supporting database structures. Some scripts also set up custom display formats for the SQL *Plus session so that the results produced by the chapter's exercises are easy to read.

The support files and code examples for this book are present on the CD distributed with this ...

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