Connecting to an Oracle Data Mining Server

Before you use Oracle Data Miner, you must connect to an Oracle 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition database that has the Oracle Data Mining option installed. When you connect, Oracle Data Miner logs you on to the account specified in the connection information. The user name and password that you specify when you define a connection must specify an account that satisfies the requirements of Oracle Data Mining. Oracle Data Mining requires several CREATE permissions plus SELECT access to the tables containing data for analysis. For details, see Chapters 2 and 4 of the Oracle Data Mining Administrator's Guide. See Where to Find More Information to locate this manual.

The first time that you use Oracle Data Miner, no connections are defined. You must define at least one connection; see Define and Edit Connections for details.

To select a connection to a database:

  1. In the Connection dropdown box, select the Oracle Data Mining connection that you wish to use.
  2. Click OK to continue.
  3. If the password was not saved when the connection was defined, you are prompted to Enter connection password. Type the password and click OK.

When Oracle Data Miner successfully connects to the specified account, the Oracle Data Miner display appears.

To define a new connection or to edit or delete an existing connection, see Define and Edit Connections.