Oracle Related Materials
This page will be updated during the semester.
- Instructions for Oracle at UMBC
- Oracle 8i Documentation.
- A Simple Guide to ORACLE SQLPLUS
- Oracle and Java
- Introduction
to JDBC from the CS145 course at Stanford.
- Sample Java program
for interacting with Oracle using the Oracle JDBC drivers.
- JDBC Thin drivers for Oracle 8.1.5 and
8.1.6.
To download the driver(s), rightclick your browser's pointer over the link
and use the "Save Link Target As" option.
- To compile and run the sample Java program above,
- Use Java 1.2 or higher. Ensure that java and javac are in your
path environment variable.
- Set the CLASSPATH environment variable to include the complete pathname of
your Oracle JDBC driver. For example,
if your driver is located at /usr/guest/oracle815.jar, then
use setenv CLASSPATH ".:/usr/guest/oracle815.jar".
- Compile, javac JdbcSample.java, and run java JdbcSample.