Chapter Summary

This chapter has explained how to install Oracle XE for Microsoft Windows, as well as the basic concepts and procedures necessary to get started working with Oracle XE:

ImageAn Oracle database is not available until after you start a database instance, mount and open the database.

ImageOn Microsoft Windows, you can check the status of and control the availability of the default starter database by using the Services window to manage the OracleServiceXE service.

To establish a local database connection to an Oracle database with SQL*Plus, you ...

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