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Finally, someone who understands what I'm asking. Thanks, Marco.

I can log in as sysdba with sqlplus, in order to create users or grant privileges. But I'd like to do that in an editor like Pl/Sql Developer, if possible. Is that possible, or does that role require sqlplus? I don't know how to create a connection with pl/sql developer, even though it's easy...

Hi, I have several working tnsname entries, so no problem with setting that up in general. But I can't figure out how to write a tnsnames entry specifically for sysdba in oracle express. I've searched for several days, and cannot locate an example on the web, specifically for sysdba XE.

I re-downloaded and reinstalled the client tools, and pointed to the oci.dll in preferences. The error is gone.

I had problems logging in a few days ago, but that was resolved. This week, it's getting me an initialization error that it couldn't locate OCI.dll. Does Pl/Sql Developer depend on the Oracle client software? I had to unset some environmental variables and other stuff today. I think maybe I...