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Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• About this guide
• Audience
• Conventions
• Contacting Oracle Customer Support

1 Getting a Big Data Discovery Cloud Service Subscription

• About Big Data Discovery Cloud Service
• Before you begin with your subscription
• Interfaces to the service
• What's new in the service?
• Relationship between the service and Big Data Discovery
• About users and roles
  • Accessing the Console
  • Accessing the service node in a cluster
• Enabling VPN access to the service
• Requesting and activating a subscription
• Logging into the service console for the first time
• Creating a service instance
  • Step 1: Select a host for your service instance
  • Step 2: Provide service details
  • Step 3: Confirm your service configuration
• Replacing SSL certificates
• Verifying the service instance
• Accessing documentation for the service

2 Instance Life Cycle Tasks

• The Overview page
• The Administration page
• Starting and stopping an instance
• Accessing Studio
• Scheduling backups
• Creating a backup on demand
• Restoring an instance from a backup
• About loading data into your service
• Patching the service
• Rolling back a failed patch
• Resetting and re-enabling an instance
• Updating credentials
• Deleting an instance
• Termination

3 Welcome to Big Data Discovery

• Ways of using Big Data Discovery
• Value of using Big Data Discovery
• Addressing your goals and needs
• Results of working with Big Data Discovery
• About Studio
• About Data Processing
• About the Dgraph

4 Taking a Tour of Studio

• Workflow in Studio
• Finding data sets
• Profiling and Enriching Data
• Using Explore
• Using Transform
• Using Discover
• Using filtering, Guided Navigation, and Search

5 Data Sets in Big Data Discovery

• About data sets
• Data sets in Catalog vs data sets in projects
• Data Set Manager
• Sampled and full data sets
• Data set lifecycle in Studio
• Projects and applications in Big Data Discovery
• Data set access, access to projects, and user roles

6 Data Loading and Updates

• Data loading options
• Data loading and sample size
• Studio-loaded files: data update diagram
• DP CLI-loaded files: data update diagram
• Data update options

7 What's New and Changed in this Release

• New and updated features

8 Where You Go from Here

• Quick reference to areas of interest

A Glossary

Index