Create a Connection and a Project

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Oracle Data Miner requires you to connect to a database containing the data used for building models. You must define the connection to the data mining account and add it to the Data Miner navigator.

  1. If the Data Miner navigator is not open, select Tools > Data Miner > Make Visible in the menu bar.
  2. In the Data Miner navigator, right-click Connections, and select Add Connection.
  3. The Select Connection dialog launches.
  4. If a connection for data mining has already been defined, select it from the drop down list and click OK. To define a new connection, go to the next step.
  5. To define a new connection, click the green plus sign add connection.
    1. The New/Select Database Connection dialog launches. Define the database connection dmConnection as follows:
      1. Use dmConnection as the name for the connection. Enter the appropriate values for these fields: user name and user password, host name, port, and SID or service name.
        If you need more information about any of the fields, click Help to see the help for the dialog.
      2. Click Test Connection to confirm that you can connect.
      3. If Status: Success appears at the bottom left of the dialog, click Save to return to the Select Connection dialog.
    2. Select dmConnection from the Connection list.
    3. Click OK.
    4. The connection dmConnection appears in the Data Miner navigator. dmConnection also appears in the SQL Developer Connections navigator.
  6. You must create a Data Mining project to contain the workflows:
    1. In the Data Mining Connections Navigator, right-click dmConnection and select New Project from the context menu.
    2. Name the project HighValue; add comments, if you wish.
    3. Click OK.

The new project HighValue is added to the Data Miner navigator under the connection dmConnection.

You can delete a connection when you are done with it.

Note:  If you delete a connection, the projects and workflows defined in that connection are not deleted.

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The cue cards icon Next step is to create a workflow.