Data Used to Test the Model

The data used to test the model must reside in an Oracle 10g table or view. The data must be compatible with the data used to build the model; for more information, see Testing Classification and Regression Models.

Oracle Data Miner supports the following Oracle datatypes:

Attributes of type DATE are automatically converted to numbers before mining is performed by calculating the Julian date. For details, see Date Conversion.

Any column in a table that has a datatype not in this list is ignored by Oracle Data Miner. The columns are automatically filtered out and are, therefore, not displayed.

Specify the location of the data used to test the model and some characteristics of the data:

Click Next to continue. The wizard performs the following validations:

The wizard then extracts the attributes.