tell me more icon Create a Connection and Project

A connection specifies the user account where mining takes place. You must connect to a user that has the appropriate grants for data mining. A connection to a user account is a top-level object in the Data Miner workspace. Under a connection, you create projects to organize your work.

You can add, edit, and delete connections. You can also examine connection properties.

Connections are displayed in the Data Miner Navigator. (The connections are also displayed in the SQL Developer Connections navigator.)

To view the projects in a connections, expand the connection.

First define a connection in the Data Miner Connections navigator.

If the Data Miner navigator is not open, select Tools>Data Miner Interfaces.

To create a connection, right-click Connection in the Data Miner navigator. Select New Connection. The Select Connection dialog opens:

Select Connection

To define a new connection, click the green plus sign add connection.

The Select/Create New Connection dialog opens. Define, test, and save dmConnection.

You return to the Select Connection dialog. Select dmConnection. Click OK.

To create a project to hold the workflows, right-click the connection that you created. Select New Project

Select Create New Project

Specify a name for the project and optional comments to describe the project.

Create New Project dialog with comments

Click OK to create the project.