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How to obtain Oracle software?

April 26, 2017obtain Oracle Software

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How to obtain Oracle software?

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• You can download Oracle server from Oracle Technical Network website. You need to be a member (free registration). Once you become a member, you can download any Oracle software for your personal use. • For UQ students, we are part of Oracle Academic Initiative scheme. Once you become a member of OAI, UQ’s site licence can be made available to you. This does not give you the latest version of software, but does save you a lot of time for downloading gigabytes of software. • How to install Oracle? • Install Oracle on Windows is very simple these days. First you need to get a right copy of Oracle software (according to which OS you are using). • All you need to do to install Oracle, apart from normal things such as click “yes” or “I accept” and set your program directories, is to give a Global database name (for example, I use zxf.uq), and then your SID will be derived (in my case, SID = zxf). • It is time-consuming to install (from 20 minutes to 1 hour), but you don’t need to do anyth