Preface

This manual describes the features of Oracle Data Mining, a comprehensive data mining solution within Oracle Database. It explains the data mining algorithms, and and it lays a conceptual foundation for much of the procedural information contained in other manuals. (See "Related Documentation".)

The preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documentation

• Conventions

Audience

Oracle Data Mining Concepts is intended for analysts, application developers, and data mining specialists.

Documentation Accessibility

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Related Documentation

The documentation set for Oracle Data Mining is part of the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Online Documentation Library. The Oracle Data Mining documentation set consists of the following:

• Oracle Data Mining Concepts

• Oracle Data Mining Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Data Mining Application Developer's Guide

• Oracle Data Mining Java API Reference (javadoc)

• Oracle Data Mining API Reference (virtual book)

• Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference

  • DBMS_DATA_MINING

  • DBMS_DATA_MINING_TRANSFORM

  • DBMS_PREDICTIVE_ANALYTICS

• Oracle Database SQL Language Reference

  • Data Mining Functions

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: