Oracle Context Option Administrator's Guide

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Preface

This manual explains how to administer Oracle ConText Option and perform the necessary setup and maintenance to allow application developers to develop text-enabled applications.

Audience

This document is intended for the DBA or system administrator responsible for maintaining the Oracle ConText Option system.

It is also intended for the user who is responsible for setting up and maintaining the text stored in the database. This user could be a DBA or system administer. It could also be an application designer or developer.

Prerequisites

This document assumes that you have experience with the Oracle relational database management system, SQL, SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL. See the documentation provided with your hardware and software for additional information.

If you are unfamiliar with the Oracle RDBMS and related tools, read Chapter 1, "An Introduction to the Oracle Server", in the Oracle7 Server Concepts Manual. The chapter is a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and terminology used throughout Oracle documentation.

Related Publications

For more information about Oracle ConText Option, see:

Oracle ConText Option QuickStart

Oracle ConText Option Application Developer's Guide

Oracle ConText Option Messages

For more information about the Oracle7 server, see:

Oracle7 Server Concepts

Oracle7 Server Administrator's Guide

Oracle7 Server Utilities

Oracle7 Server Tuning

Oracle7 Server SQL Reference

Oracle7 Server Application Developer's Guide

For more information about PL/SQL, see:

PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference

How This Manual Is Organized

The manual is divided into an introduction and five parts:

Introduction

This section introduces Oracle ConText Option and provides an overview of the features and process model for the product.

PART I CONTEXT OPTION ADMINISTRATION

This section provides a discussion of ConText Option concepts and provides instructions for managing ConText users, servers, and queues.

PART II TEXT SETUP AND MANAGEMENT

This section provides a discussion of text concepts, introduces the ConText data dictionary, and provides instructions for setting up and managing text so that users (application developers) can perform text queries.

PART III CONFIGURATION AND TUNING

This section provides tips and information for configuring ConText Option and tuning indexing and queries.

PART IV REFERENCE

This section provides instructions for the executables and utilities provided with ConText Option. It also lists the objects in the ConText data dictionary and the stored procedures/functions in the PL/SQL packages provided with ConText Option.

PART V APPENDICES

This section provides descriptions of the views provided with ConText Option. It also describes the tables that comprise a ConText index.

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Your Comments Are Welcome

Please use the Reader's Comment Form at the back of this document to convey your comments to us. You can also contact us at:

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