Preface

This manual describes the Oracle Data Mining Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and the SQL functions for Data Mining. APIs are available for PL/SQL and for Java.

This manual is intended to be used along with the related reference documentation and sample applications. This information will enable you to develop Data Mining applications for business and bioinformatics applications.

The preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documentation

• Conventions

Audience

This manual is intended for application developers who intend to create data mining applications in PL/SQL or Java.

To use the PL/SQL API and SQL scoring functions for data mining, you need a working knowledge of PL/SQL and Oracle SQL. To use the Java API, you need a working knowledge of Java. To use both interfaces, you need a working knowledge of application programming in an Oracle database environment and a general understanding of data mining concepts.

Users of the Oracle Data Mining BLAST table functions should be familiar with NCBI BLAST and related concepts.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documentation

The documentation set for Oracle Data Mining is part of the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) Online Documentation Library. The Oracle Data Mining documentation set consists of the following documents:

• Oracle Data Mining Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Data Mining Concepts

• Oracle Data Mining Java API Reference (javadoc)

• Oracle Data Mining Application Developer's Guide (this document)

For detailed information about the Oracle Data Mining PL/SQL interface, see Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference.

For detailed information about the SQL functions for Oracle Data Mining, see Oracle Database SQL Reference.

For information about developing applications to interact with Oracle Database, see Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: