Using DBMS_DATA_MINING With Oracle Database 10g

Friday, March 12th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

One of the new features in Oracle 9i was a Oracle Data Mining, a data mining engine which allowed data analysts and application developers perform a range of data mining algorithms on data held in the Oracle database. Oracle 9i came with a number of mining algorithms, such as Adaptive Bayes Networks, Clustering and Association [...]

“Undocumented Express” Tips by William G. Brown

Friday, March 12th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

It’s only now available (so I believe) through a Google cached copy, but William G. Brown’s “Undocumented Express” paper contains a number of good Oracle Express tips in nine categories: MCALC Worksheets Time dimensions TCONVERT Capstones XCA Faster SQL-based loaders Custom functions Conjoints  Check it out whilst it’s still available…

Previewing The Next Generation Of Oracle Discoverer

Friday, March 12th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

One of the most interesting presentations being given at next weeks’ UKOUG Reporting Tools & BIW Special Event is a preview of the next generation of Oracle Discoverer, known by the codename ‘Drake’. Oracle haven’t officially released details of Discoverer Drake yet, but it’s possible now to pull together a picture of what the product [...]

OTN Paper On Automatic Patch Notification Using OEM 10g

Monday, March 1st, 2004 by Mark Rittman

There’s a useful new paper on OTN (via ITToolbox.com) about the automatic patch notification feature in Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g. OEM 10g supports a live connection to Metalink and notifies the DBA about any critical patches that need to be applied to the database, and records and tracks those patches that have been applied.

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