Preface

The Oracle Big Data SQL User's Guide describes how to use and manage the Oracle Big Data SQL product.

Audience

This guide is intended for administrators and users of Oracle Big Data SQL, including:

• Application developers

• Data analysts

• Data scientists

• Database administrators

• System administrators

The guide assumes that the reader has sufficient background knowledge about the database server and the particular Hadoop platform which will host the software in order to follow the instructions successfully.

Related Documents

See the Oracle Big Data SQL Installation Guide for instructions on installing the product.

See the Oracle Big Data Appliance Owner's Guide for information about using the Oracle Big Data SQL with Oracle Big Data Appliance.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.
# prompt	The pound (#) prompt indicates a command that is run as the Linux root user.

Backus-Naur Form Syntax

The syntax in this reference is presented in a simple variation of Backus-Naur Form (BNF) that uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention	Description
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional items.
{ }	Braces enclose a choice of items, only one of which is required.
|	A vertical bar separates alternatives within brackets or braces.
...	Ellipses indicate that the preceding syntactic element can be repeated.
delimiters	Delimiters other than brackets, braces, and vertical bars must be entered as shown.
boldface	Words appearing in boldface are keywords. They must be typed as shown. (Keywords are case-sensitive in some, but not all, operating systems.) Words that are not in boldface are placeholders for which you must substitute a name or value.