| Oracle® Spatial User's Guide and Reference 10g Release 1 (10.1) Part Number B10826-01 |
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| Oracle® Spatial User's Guide and Reference 10g Release 1 (10.1) Part Number B10826-01 |
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The Oracle Spatial User's Guide and Reference provides usage and reference information for indexing and storing spatial data and for developing spatial applications using Oracle Spatial and Oracle Locator.
Oracle Spatial requires the Enterprise Edition of Oracle Database 10g. It is a foundation for the deployment of enterprise-wide spatial information systems, and Web-based and wireless location-based applications requiring complex spatial data management. Oracle Locator is a feature of the Standard and Enterprise Editions of Oracle Database 10g. It offers a subset of Oracle Spatial capabilities (see Appendix B for a list of Locator features) typically required to support Internet and wireless service applications and partner-based geographic information system (GIS) solutions.
The Standard and Enterprise Editions of Oracle Database 10g have the same basic features. However, several advanced features, such as extended data types, are available only with the Enterprise Edition, and some of these features are optional. For example, to use Oracle Database 10g table partitioning, you must have the Enterprise Edition and the Partitioning Option.
For information about the differences between Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition and Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition and the features and options that are available to you, see Oracle Database New Features.
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Note: The relational geometry model of Oracle Spatial is no longer supported, effective with Oracle release 9.2. Only the object-relational model is supported. |
This preface contains these topics:
This guide is intended for anyone who needs to store spatial data in an Oracle database.
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This guide has two main parts (conceptual and usage information, and reference information) and a third part with supplementary information. The first part is organized for efficient learning about Oracle Spatial; it covers basic concepts and techniques first, and proceeds to more advanced material (such as coordinate systems, the linear referencing system, geocoding, and extending spatial indexing).This guide has the following elements.
Contains chapters with conceptual and usage information.
Explains important concepts and techniques that you need to know to use Spatial.
Explains the data types and metadata for Spatial. It includes a complete simplified example of using Spatial, as well as several examples of spatial geometries.
Explains how to load spatial data.
Explains how to index and query spatial data.
Provides conceptual and usage information about support for geocoding.
Provides conceptual and usage information about coordinate system (spatial reference system) support.
Provides conceptual and usage information about the Oracle Spatial linear referencing system (LRS).
Provides conceptual and usage information about the Oracle Spatial analysis and mining features for data mining applications.
Explains how to extend the capabilities of Oracle Spatial indexing.
Contains chapters with reference information.
Provides the syntax and semantics for SQL indexing statements.
Provides the syntax and semantics for methods used with the spatial object data type.
Provides the syntax and semantics for operators used with the spatial object data type.
Provides the syntax and semantics for the geometric functions and procedures.
Provides the syntax and semantics for the spatial aggregate functions.
Provides the syntax and semantics for the coordinate system transformation functions and procedures.
Provides the syntax and semantics for the functions and procedures related to the Oracle Spatial linear referencing system (LRS).
Provides the syntax and semantics for the migration procedure.
Provides the syntax and semantics for the spatial tuning functions and procedures.
Provides the syntax and semantics for the spatial utility functions and procedures.
Provides the syntax and semantics for the geocoding functions and procedures.
Provides the syntax and semantics for the spatial analysis and mining functions and procedures.
Contains appendixes and a glossary.
Describes installation, compatibility, and upgrade issues.
Describes Oracle Locator.
Provides examples, with explanations, of queries that are more complex than the examples in the reference chapters.
Defines important terms.
Technologies of interest to spatial application developers, but not officially part of Oracle Spatial, are sometimes made available through the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). To access the Spatial page on OTN, go to
http://otn.oracle.com/products/spatial/
For more information, see the following documents:
Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals
Oracle Database Error Messages - Spatial messages are in the range of 13000 to 13499.
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