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In order to connect to your Oracle account you have to:

1. The oracle client binaries are installed on the CSIL linux machines in /usr/dcs/software/applications/Oracle. The oracle SID is oracsil. Students need to set the following environment variables. You can add these lines to your .cshrc file.

setenv ORACLE_HOME /usr/dcs/software/applications/Oracle
setenv ORACLE_SID oracsil
You can also add /usr/dcs/software/applications/Oracle/bin to your PATH variable.

2. type at the prompt:

/usr/dcs/software/applications/Oracle/bin/sqlplus 

3. type at sql prompt:

Enter user-name: netid@oracsil

4. when prompted, type your password (we will announce your passwords in class)

5. After log in, you can change your password by command "password [username]", where [username] is your netid.

6. In order to access the database through a web application using php, you need to put your php scripts in the csil-projects/public_html directory that you will find in your home directories. You can then access the script with the URL http://csil-projects.cs.uiuc.edu/~netid/scriptname.php.
If you get a message saying you can't use the csil-projects website, please send email to userhelp@cs.uiuc.edu requesting access.


For a more complete understanding of the Oracle DBMS, please refer to our Oracle resource page.

Here is our sample java program that should help you understand JDBC connection to Oracle.


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