Part II

Reference Information

This document has three parts:

• Part I provides conceptual and usage information about Oracle Spatial.

• Part II provides reference information about Oracle Spatial operators, functions, and procedures.

• Part III provides supplementary information (appendixes and a glossary).

Part II contains the following chapters with reference information:

• Chapter 10, "SQL Statements for Indexing Spatial Data"

• Chapter 11, "Spatial Operators"

• Chapter 12, "Spatial Aggregate Functions"

• Chapter 13, "SDO_CS Package (Coordinate System Transformation)"

• Chapter 14, "SDO_GCDR Package (Geocoding)"

• Chapter 15, "SDO_GEOM Package (Geometry)"

• Chapter 16, "SDO_LRS Package (Linear Referencing System)"

• Chapter 17, "SDO_MIGRATE Package (Upgrading)"

• Chapter 18, "SDO_SAM Package (Spatial Analysis and Mining)"

• Chapter 19, "SDO_TUNE Package (Tuning)"

• Chapter 20, "SDO_UTIL Package (Utility)"

To understand the examples in the reference chapters, you must understand the conceptual and data type information in Chapter 2, "Spatial Data Types and Metadata", especially Section 2.2, "SDO_GEOMETRY Object Type".