Oracle XE

Oracle XE (eXpress Edition) is Oracle Corporation's free to use and distribute database edition.

XE is available for Windows and Linux and can be downloaded free of charge from Oracle TechNet. Linux RPM's are also available for easy deployment on Linux servers.

Features

Oracle XE offers (almost) all features you would expect the Oracle database to have. In addition, it also ships with:

• APEX - which can be used to develop web based applications
• PHP language bindings

Limitations

Oracle XE is limited to:

• only use one CPU on a system
• use up to 1GB of RAM
• store up to 4GB of data, 11GB of data on 11.2

The following database features are not supported:

• partitioned objects
• internal Java virtual machine (JVM)

Support

Support for Oracle XE is exclusively through on-line forums and NOT through the official Oracle Support channel.

Database login

To login as the DBA user:

C:\>set ORACLE_SID=XE
C:\>sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Dec 28 09:36:12 2007
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production

SQL> SELECT * FROM dba_users;

Login to demo accounts, say HR:

C:\>set ORACLE_SID=XE
C:\>sqlplus HR/HR

Change the default port

To change the default port from 8080 to something else, execute:

sqlplus '/ as sysdba'
SQL> EXEC DBMS_XDB.SETHTTPPORT(80);

Check if the port was changed:

SQL> SELECT dbms_xdb.gethttpport, dbms_xdb.getftpport FROM dual;

External links

Oracle XE's Home Page