Appendix A. Scenarios and Examples – A Hands-on Lab

The main idea of this hands-on appendix is to allow you to practice some of the scenarios you saw in this book (step-by-step) and learn by practice. If you have any doubt about a command of what it will be doing, for more information please refer to the corresponding chapter in this book for the scenario.

To be able to execute the exercises in this appendix, you should first create a test environment performing the following steps:

  1. Download the Oracle VirtualBox (free virtualization tool) at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.
  2. Download Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 (https://edelivery.oracle.com/linux) and Oracle 12c database for Linux at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/database12c-linux-download-1959253.html ...

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