Preface

Oracle Ultra Search User's Guide describes how to configure and use Oracle Ultra Search and Ultra Search APIs.

This preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Organization

• Related Documentation

• Conventions

• Documentation Accessibility

Audience

Oracle Ultra Search User's Guide is intended for database administrators and application developers who perform the following tasks:

• Install and configure Oracle Ultra Search

• Administer Oracle Ultra Search instances

• Develop Oracle Ultra Search applications

To use this document, you should have experience with the Oracle database management system, SQL, SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL.

Organization

This document contains:

This section describes new features and provides pointers to additional information.

This chapter provides an overview of Oracle Ultra Search and describes the system configuration.

This chapter provides an example scenario that shows installation and use of Oracle Ultra Search.

This chapter describes how to install and configure Oracle Ultra Search.

This chapter provides post-installation information, such as how to configure the Oracle Database server for Oracle Ultra Search and how to manage stoplists. It also describes how to upgrade to the most recent Oracle Ultra Search release.

This chapter describes various ways to tune Oracle Ultra Search and improve performance. These include tuning the Web crawling process, tuning query performance, using the remote crawler, using Oracle Ultra Search on Real Application Clusters, and table data source synchronization.

This chapter describes the architecture and configuration of security for Oracle Ultra Search.

This chapter explains how the crawler works. It also describes crawler settings, data sources, document attributes, data synchronization, and the remote crawler.

This chapter describes how to use the Oracle Ultra Search administration tool to configure and schedule the Oracle Ultra Search crawler.

This chapter explains the following Oracle Ultra Search APIs: query API, crawler agent API, email API, and URL rewriter API. It also provides related API information, such as details about the sample query applications, the query tag library, and query syntax expansion customization.

This chapter details some of Oracle Ultra Search's PL/SQL APIs for administration, including those for crawler configuration, crawler scheduling, and instance administration.

This appendix describes the command-line tool for loading metadata into an Oracle Ultra Search database.

This appendix explains why and how to alter the crawler Java classpath.

This appendix shows the various views available with Oracle Ultra Search.

Related Documentation

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts

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Conventions

This section describes the conventions used in the text and code examples of this documentation set. It describes:

• Conventions in Text

• Conventions in Code Examples

• Conventions for Windows Operating Systems

We use various conventions in text to help you more quickly identify special terms. The following table describes those conventions and provides examples of their use.

Code examples illustrate SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, or other command-line statements. They are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and separated from normal text as shown in this example:

SELECT username FROM dba_users WHERE username = 'MIGRATE';

The following table describes typographic conventions used in code examples and provides examples of their use.

[ ]

DECIMAL (digits [ , precision ])

{ }

{ENABLE | DISABLE}

|

{ENABLE | DISABLE}
[COMPRESS | NOCOMPRESS]

...

CREATE TABLE ... AS subquery;

SELECT col1, col2, ... , coln FROM employees;

.
 .
 .

SQL> SELECT NAME FROM V$DATAFILE;
NAME
------------------------------------
/fsl/dbs/tbs_01.dbf
/fs1/dbs/tbs_02.dbf
.
.
.
/fsl/dbs/tbs_09.dbf
9 rows selected.

acctbal NUMBER(11,2);
acct    CONSTANT NUMBER(4) := 3;

Italics

CONNECT SYSTEM/system_password
DB_NAME = database_name

UPPERCASE

SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees;
SELECT * FROM USER_TABLES;
DROP TABLE hr.employees;

lowercase

SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees;
sqlplus hr/hr
CREATE USER mjones IDENTIFIED BY ty3MU9;

The following table describes conventions for Windows operating systems and provides examples of their use.

c:\winnt"\"system32 is the same as C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32

C:\oracle\oradata>

C:\>exp scott/tiger TABLES=emp QUERY=\"WHERE job='SALESMAN' and sal<1600\"
C:\>imp SYSTEM/password FROMUSER=scott TABLES=(emp, dept)

HOME_NAME

C:\> net start OracleHOME_NAMETNSListener

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JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

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