Preface

This manual explains how to administer Oracle8 ConText Cartridge and perform the necessary setup and maintenance to allow application developers to develop ConText-enabled applications.

Audience

This manual is intended for the DBA or system administrator responsible for maintaining the ConText system.

It is also intended for the user who is responsible for setting up and maintaining the text stored in the database. This user could be a DBA or system administer. It could also be an application designer/developer.

Prerequisites

This document assumes that you have experience with the Oracle relational database management system, SQL, SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL. See the documentation provided with your hardware and software for additional information.

If you are unfamiliar with the Oracle RDBMS and related tools, read Chapter 1, "An Introduction to the Oracle Server", in Oracle8 Concepts. The chapter is a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and terminology used throughout Oracle documentation.

Related Publications

 

For more information about ConText, see:
• Oracle8 ConText Cartridge QuickStart
• Oracle8 ConText Cartridge Application Developer's Guide
• Oracle8 ConText Cartridge Workbench User's Guide
• Oracle8 Error Messages

For more information about Oracle8, see:

• Oracle8 Concepts
• Oracle8 Administrator's Guide
• Oracle8 Utilities
• Oracle8 Tuning
• Oracle8 SQL Reference
• Oracle8 Reference Manual
• Oracle8 Application Developer's Guide

For more information about PL/SQL, see:

• PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference

How This Manual Is Organized

The manual is divided into an introduction and three parts:

Chapter 1, "Introduction"

This chapter introduces ConText and provides an overview of the features and process model for the product.

PART I: CONTEXT ADMINISTRATION

Chapter 2, "Administration Concepts"

This chapter introduces the administration concepts, such as ConText users, roles, servers, and queues, that are necessary for understanding ConText administration.

Chapter 3, "Administering ConText"

This chapter provides detailed instructions and examples for performing administration tasks, such as creating ConText users, assigning ConText roles, starting and stopping ConText servers, and managing the ConText queues, from the command-line.

Chapter 4, "ConText Server Executable and Utility"

This chapter describes the ConText server executable, ctxsrv, and the control utility, ctxctl, and lists the command-line options for both. It also provides syntax examples for ctxsrv and ctxctl.

Chapter 5, "PL/SQL Packages - Administration"

This chapter describes the stored procedures and functions in the PL/SQL packages provided for performing ConText administration.

PART II: TEXT SETUP AND MANAGEMENT

Chapter 6, "Text Concepts"

This chapter introduces the text concepts, such as text columns, text loading, ConText indexes, thesauri, and document sections, that are necessary for understanding text setup and management for enabling ConText queries.

Chapter 7, "Automated Text Loading"

This chapter introduces the concepts required for understanding automated text loading in ConText. It also provides detailed descriptions of the ConText data dictionary objects, such as sources, text loading preferences, and Tiles, that are required for enabling automated text loading.

Chapter 8, "ConText Indexing"

This chapter introduces the concepts required for understanding ConText indexing. It also provides detailed descriptions of the ConText data dictionary objects, such as policies, indexing preferences, and Tiles, that are required for creating ConText indexes.

Chapter 9, "Setting Up and Managing Text"

This chapter provides detailed instructions and examples for performing text setup and management tasks, such as loading text, creating/managing ConText indexes, creating/managing thesauri, and creating/managing document sections, from the command line.

Chapter 10, "Text Loading Utility"

This chapter describes the ConText text loading utility, ctxload, and lists the command-line options for the utility. It also provides syntax examples for the utility.

Chapter 11, "PL/SQL Packages - Text Management"

This chapter lists the stored procedures and functions in the PL/SQL packages provided for setting up and managing text in ConText.

PART III: APPENDICES

Appendix A, "Supplied Stoplists"

This chapter lists the stop words in the language-specific stoplists provided by ConText. It also describes how to create the stoplists.

Appendix B, "ConText Views"

This chapter lists the views that ConText provides for managing ConText servers and queues, as well as the views for the ConText data dictionary.

Appendix C, "ConText Index Tables and Indexes"

This chapter lists the database tables and views that comprise a ConText index.

Appendix D, "External Filter Specifications"

This chapter lists the external filter formats supported by ConText for mixed-format columns, as well as provides installation, setup, and usage details for the external filters supplied by ConText.

Type Conventions

This manual adheres to the following type conventions:

Type	Meaning
UPPERCASE	Uppercase letters indicate Oracle commands, standard database objects and constants, and standard Oracle PL/SQL procedures.
lowercase italics	Italics indicate variable names, names of user objects (tables, views, preferences, policies, etc.), PL/SQL parameter/argument names, and names of example PL/SQL procedures.  Italics also indicate emphasis.
monospace	Monospace type indicate example SQL*Plus commands and example PL/SQL code. Type in the command or code exactly as it appears.

 

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