Where to Find More Information

This topic describes where to find information about data mining:

Much of the documentation listed here is in the Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1) Documentation Library available from Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1) Documentation. The data mining documentation is listed in "Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence".

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Oracle Data Mining Documentation

Oracle Data Miner 11.1 is the user interface to Oracle Data Mining for Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1).

Oracle Data Mining 11g documentation is in the "Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence" section of the documentation library.

For detailed information about Oracle Data Mining 11g, see

You should also read the release notes for the version of Oracle that is installed on your system.

Oracle Data Mining Tutorial

The Oracle Data Miner 10.2.0.3 Tutorial is a WinZip archive consisting of the Oracle Data Mining Tutorial in PDF format and dump files required for tutorial exercises. This tutorial describes how to use Oracle Data Miner 10.2; Oracle Data Miner 11.1 uses the same graphical user interface as Data Miner 10.2; much of the 10.2 tutorial applies to Oracle Data Miner 11.1. Download the tutorial from Oracle Data Miner.

Oracle Text Documentation

Oracle Data Miner supports mining one column of text data, which is unstructured data. You can also mine a column of text data by joining the text as a transactional source. Mining text data uses the facilities and concepts of Oracle Text. For detailed information about Oracle Text, see the following manuals in :

Oracle Text documentation is in the "Unstructured Data and Content Management" section of the documentation library.

Oracle Data Miner Documentation

The documentation consists of the following:

These items are included in the Oracle Technology Network download for Oracle Data Miner. readme.html is automatically copied to the directory where Oracle Data Miner is installed.

Other Sources of Information

For the latest version of Oracle Data Miner and information and resources about Data Mining and related technologies, see Oracle Data Mining, the Oracle Data Mining home page.

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