Manually Installing Oracle Data Mining in Oracle 11g

Hi,
If you compare Oracle 11g and previous versions there are lot of changes in terms of installing Data Mining component,
For installing check the MY ORACLE SUPPORT note :
How To Manually Install Data Mining In Oracle 11g? [ID 818314.1].

Information about data mining:
The brief information about Oracle Data mining can be obtained from the below link:

http://docs.oracle.com/html/B14339_01/1intro.htm

In short,If you do the Oracle installation with Enterprise Edition installation type ,it selects Oracle Data Mining option by default.In Oracle Database 11g,the Data Mining metadata is created with 'SYS' metadata when you select the Create Database option.

For verifying the installation of Oracle Data Mining:
Check if the parameter DATA MINING is set to TRUE,if it is than Oracle Data Mining component is already installed in the Database.The V$OPTION is very useful for checking the various functionality exist in your Database or not as seen from the below results:

SQL>SET LINESIZE 1000
SQL>SELECT *FROM V$OPTION;

PARAMETER VALUE
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
Partitioning TRUE
Objects TRUE
Real Application Clusters FALSE
Advanced replication TRUE
Bit-mapped indexes TRUE
Connection multiplexing TRUE
Connection pooling TRUE
Database queuing TRUE
Incremental backup and recovery TRUE
Instead-of triggers TRUE
Parallel backup and recovery TRUE

PARAMETER VALUE
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
Parallel execution TRUE
Parallel load TRUE
Point-in-time tablespace recovery TRUE
Fine-grained access control TRUE
Proxy authentication/authorization TRUE
Change Data Capture TRUE
Plan Stability TRUE
Online Index Build TRUE
Coalesce Index TRUE
Managed Standby TRUE
Materialized view rewrite TRUE

PARAMETER VALUE
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
Materialized view warehouse refresh TRUE
Database resource manager TRUE
Spatial TRUE
Automatic Storage Management FALSE
Export transportable tablespaces TRUE
Transparent Application Failover TRUE
Fast-Start Fault Recovery TRUE
Sample Scan TRUE
Duplexed backups TRUE
Java TRUE
OLAP Window Functions TRUE

PARAMETER VALUE
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
Block Media Recovery TRUE
Fine-grained Auditing TRUE
Application Role TRUE
Enterprise User Security TRUE
Oracle Data Guard TRUE
Oracle Label Security FALSE
OLAP TRUE
Basic Compression TRUE
Join index TRUE
Trial Recovery TRUE
Data Mining TRUE

PARAMETER VALUE
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
Online Redefinition TRUE
Streams Capture TRUE
File Mapping TRUE
Block Change Tracking TRUE
Flashback Table TRUE
Flashback Database TRUE
Transparent Data Encryption TRUE
Backup Encryption TRUE
Unused Block Compression TRUE
Oracle Database Vault FALSE
Result Cache TRUE

PARAMETER VALUE
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
SQL Plan Management TRUE
SecureFiles Encryption TRUE
Real Application Testing TRUE
Flashback Data Archive TRUE
DICOM TRUE
Active Data Guard TRUE
Server Flash Cache TRUE
Advanced Compression TRUE
XStream TRUE
Deferred Segment Creation TRUE


PRIVILEGE REQUIRED FOR DATA MINING SCHEMA:

Let us say,If you want to use Data Mining feature to a specific user,than we have to grant CREATE MINING MODEL privilege to that user.

SQL> conn dmuser
Enter password:
Connected.
SQL> select *from session_privs;

PRIVILEGE
----------------------------------------
CREATE SESSION
UNLIMITED TABLESPACE
CREATE TABLE
CREATE CLUSTER
CREATE SEQUENCE
CREATE PROCEDURE
CREATE TRIGGER
CREATE TYPE
CREATE OPERATOR
CREATE INDEXTYPE
CREATE MINING MODEL

11 rows selected.



Happy Oracle DBA tasks...


Best regards,

Rafi.