Preface

This manual describes the programmatic interfaces to Oracle Data Mining. You can use the PL/SQL and Java interfaces to create data mining applications or add data mining features to existing applications. You can use the data mining SQL operators in applications or in ad hoc queries.

Note:

The Oracle Data Mining Java API is deprecated in this release.

Oracle recommends that you not use deprecated features in new applications. Support for deprecated features is for backward compatibility only

This manual should be used along with the demo applications and the related reference documentation. (See "Related Documentation".)

The preface contains these topics:

Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documentation
Conventions

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Audience

This manual is intended for database programmers who are familiar with Oracle Data Mining.

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Documentation Accessibility

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Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
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italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
`monospace`	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.