Downloading, Setting Up & Running Oracle Data Miner
Uli Bethke
As the awareness of Oracle Data Miner increases so does the interest in trying out and playing with Oracle Data Miner (ODM). The following set of instructions steps you through what is required to download and install the database, configure a data mining user in the database, populate the data mining user with some data. ...
Read More10 Reasons you really need predictive analytics
SPSS have recently posted and article called “10 Reasons you really need predictive analytics“. I thought it would be interesting to post the main points from this article to illustrate that not all predictive analytic projects involve Data Mining, but involve a number of different techniques and looking the the business data in a different ...
Read MoreComparative Window Functions: Proposed Extensions to Analytic Functions
I promise that this will be the last post on analytic functions this month; but I came across this proposal to extend analytic functions with a comparative window function on Tom Kyte’s blog yesterday (also make sure to review the actual paper). Basically this new type of analytic function would allow you to compare the ...
Read MoreSQL quiz revisited: ROW_NUMBER, LAST_VALUE, FIRST_VALUE and the SQL knights value problem.
Thank you all for your entries to the recent quiz. The guys from Packt should be shortly sending out the e-books to the winners. Today I will walk you through some of the possible solutions and also briefly touch upon performance of these. Last week’s contest was based on a classic SQL problem. Anthony Molinaro, ...
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