SQL/MX Data Mining Guide

HP NonStop SQL/MX Data Mining Guide—523737-001
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About This Manual
This manual presents a nine-step knowledge discovery process, which was developed
over a series of data mining investigations. This manual describes the data structures
and operations of the NonStop SQL/MX approach and implementation.
Audience
This manual is intended for database administrators and application programmers who
are using NonStop SQL/MX to solve data mining problems, either through the SQL
conversational interface or through embedded SQL programs.
Organization
The sections listed in Table i describe the knowledge discovery process (or the data
mining process) and present examples that carry out the process.
The appendixes listed in Table i provide the syntax for the data mining features of
NonStop SQL/MX and the SQL scripts that create the data mining database used in
the examples.
Table i. Manual Organization
Section Description
Section 1, Introduction Presents an overview of the knowledge
discovery process and the SQL/MX
approach to this process. Defines the
example business opportunity used in this
manual.
Section 2, Preparing the Data Describes the data preparation steps of the
knowledge discovery process.
Section 3, Creating the Data Mining
View
Describes how to create the mining view.
Section 4, Mining the Data Describes the data mining steps of the
knowledge discovery process.
Appendix A, Creating the Data
Mining Database
Contains DDL statement scripts that you can
use to create the data mining database used
in the examples in this manual.
Appendix B, Inserting Into the Data
Mining Database
Contains INSERT statement scripts that you
can use to populate the data mining
database used in this manual.
Appendix C, Importing Into the Data
Mining Database
Contains IMPORT statement scripts that you
can use to create the data mining database
used in this manual.