Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Provisioning a Free Database and Developer Tools in the Cloud

Learn how to setup an Oracle cloud account in Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Experiment with provisioning and using the latest version of Oracle’s enterprise-level database. Use Oracle’s interface to create tables, manipulate data, and test new features. Even learn to create Blockchain tables, a new table type useful for when immutable records of change over time are needed. All of this can be done for free. The skills you learn from using the free access translate directly to Oracle’s paid cloud offerings, making you more valuable to employers who are invested in Oracle’s cloud platform. 

Once your database is provisioned, you can use Oracle’s cloud tools to design and manage database objects. This video shows you how to design your database using Oracle’s graphical cloud database modeler. Then you’ll learn to use Oracle’s web-based, graphical tools to explore your database, and to create and query database objects such as users and tables. You will also learn how to connect to OCI databases in the cloud directly from on-premises servers via locally installed SQL client software. This gives you a flexible set of tools to explore Oracle’s cloud feature set using tools both on premises and in the cloud.