Connecting to an Oracle Data Mining Server

All ODM activities, including model building, model testing, and model scoring, take place in an Oracle 10g Release 2 (10.2) database.

Before an ODM program executes, it must connect to an Oracle10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition database that has the ODM option installed. When the program connects, it logs on to the account specified in the connection information. The user name and password specified in the connection information must be those of a correctly created user for Oracle Data Mining. Oracle Data Mining requires a small number of database permissions, plus SELECT access to the tables containing data for analysis. For details, see the Oracle Data Mining Administrator's Guide.

The first time that you use Oracle Data Miner, no connections are defined. Therefore, you first task is to define a connection; see Define and Edit Connections for details.

To select a connection to a database:

  1. Execute Oracle Data Miner using the correct method for your system:
  2. The Choose Connection dialog appears. In the Connection dropdown box, select the ODM connection that you wish to use.
  3. Click OK to continue. When Oracle Data Miner successfully connects to the specified account, the Oracle Data Miner display appears.

To define a new connection or to edit or delete an existing connection, see Define and Edit Connections.