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

Oracle Data Mining Concepts is intended for analysts, application developers, and data mining specialists.

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Related Documentation

The documentation set for Oracle Data Mining is part of the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Online Documentation Library. The Oracle Data Mining documentation set consists of the following:

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