About Vector Helper Procedures

Vector helper procedures let you configure authentication credentials, preferences, and language-specific data for use in chainable utility functions.

At a high level, the supplied vector helper procedures include:

  • Credential helper procedures to securely manage authentication credentials, which are used to access third-party providers when making REST API calls.

    Function Description

    CREATE_CREDENTIAL

    Creates a credential name for securely storing user authentication credentials in Oracle AI Database.

    DROP_CREDENTIAL

    Drops an existing credential name.

  • Preference helper procedures to manage vectorizer preferences, which are used when creating or altering hybrid vector indexes.

    Function Description

    CREATE_PREFERENCE

    Creates a vectorizer preference in the database.

    DROP_PREFERENCE

    Drops an existing vectorizer preference from the database.

  • Chunker helper procedures to manage custom vocabulary and language data, which are used when chunking user data.

    Function Description

    CREATE_VOCABULARY

    Loads your own vocabulary file into the database.

    DROP_VOCABULARY

    Removes the specified vocabulary data from the database.

    CREATE_LANG_DATA

    Loads your own language data file (abbreviation tokens) into the database.

    DROP_LANG_DATA

    Removes abbreviation data for a given language from the database.

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Parent topic: About PL/SQL Packages to Generate Embeddings