Part II

Reference Information

This document has two main parts:

• Part I provides conceptual and usage information about Oracle Spatial.

• Part II provides reference information about Oracle Spatial methods, operators, functions, and procedures.

Appendixes with supplementary information follow Part II.

Part II contains the following chapters with reference information:

• Chapter 8, " SQL Statements for Indexing Spatial Data"

• Chapter 9, " SDO_GEOMETRY Object Type Methods"

• Chapter 10, " Spatial Operators "

• Chapter 11, " Geometry Functions"

• Chapter 12, " Spatial Aggregate Functions"

• Chapter 13, " Coordinate System Transformation Functions "

• Chapter 14, " Linear Referencing Functions "

• Chapter 15, " Migration Procedures "

• Chapter 16, " Tuning Functions and Procedures"

• Chapter 17, " Utility Functions"

To understand the examples in the reference chapters, you must understand the conceptual and data type information in Chapter 2, " Spatial Data Types and Metadata", especially Section 2.2, "SDO_GEOMETRY Object Type".