Preface

This manual provides an architectural and conceptual overview of the Oracle AI Database server, which is an object-relational database management system.

The book describes how the database server functions, and it lays a conceptual foundation for much of the practical information contained in other manuals. Information in this manual applies to the database server running on all operating systems.

This preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

• Audience
  
• Documentation Accessibility
  
• Related Documents
  
• Conventions
  

Audience

Oracle AI Database Concepts is intended for technical users, primarily database administrators and database application developers, who are new to Oracle AI Database. Typically, the reader of this manual has had experience managing or developing applications for other relational databases.

To use this manual, you must know the following:

• Relational database concepts in general

• Concepts and terminology in Introduction to Oracle AI Database

• The operating system environment under which you are running Oracle

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customer access to and use of Oracle support services will be pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in their Oracle order for the applicable services.

Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle AI Database Administrator’s Guide

• Oracle AI Database Multitenant Administrator's Guide

• Oracle AI Database SQL Language Reference

• Oracle AI Database Reference

• Oracle AI Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference

• Oracle Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide

• Oracle AI Database VLDB and Partitioning Guide

• Oracle AI Database Error Message

• Oracle AI Database Net Services Administrator's Guide

• Oracle AI Database Backup and Recovery User’s Guide

• Oracle AI Database Performance Tuning Guide

• Oracle AI Database SQL Tuning Guide

• Oracle AI Database Development Guide

• Oracle AI Database PL/SQL Language Reference

• SQL*Plus User's Guide and Reference

• Oracle AI Database In-Memory Guide

• Oracle Globally Distributed AI Database

Many of the examples in this book use the sample schemas. See Oracle AI Database Sample Schemas for information about these schemas.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this manual:

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 manual 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.