Preface

Welcome to Oracle Discoverer Release 4.1! This guide to the Discoverer Administration Edition explains how to set up and maintain an ad hoc query and analysis interface for business use. It also provides an overview and tutorial to help you get started.

To use Discoverer and this guide effectively, you should be familiar with an Oracle database and understand the concepts of databases as they relate to business data analysis.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for business system and database administrators responsible for Oracle databases that support all aspects of a business environment.

Conventions

Discoverer refers to Oracle Discoverer 4.1.

EUL, the End User Layer, refers to the metadata interface between the database and Discover.

Convention	Meaning
. . .	Vertical ellipses in examples indicate omitted information not necessary for the example.
. . .	Horizontal ellipses in statements or commands indicate omitted material not necessary for the statement or command.
boldface text	Boldface type in text indicates a command name, menu name, file name, keyboard keys, or other choice or selection.
italic text	Italic type indicates a term defined in the text, the glossary, or in both locations. It can also represent a variable, and be used to provide emphasis.
< >	Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names.
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.
Menu name \| Command	Text in this format conveys a sequence of choices, i.e., choose the menu, then the command under that menu.
`Courier text`	Text in this format indicates a command line to be typed.