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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Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

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Related Documentation

The documentation set for Oracle Data Mining is part of the Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1) Online Documentation Library. The Oracle Data Mining documentation set consists of the following manuals:

• Oracle Data Mining Concepts

• Oracle Data Mining Application Developer's Guide

• Oracle Data Mining Java API Reference (javadoc)

• Oracle Data Mining Administrator's Guide

The syntax of the PL/SQL and SQL interfaces to Oracle Data Mining are documented in the following Database manuals:

• Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference

• Oracle Database SQL Language Reference

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: