Oracle Documentation for SES11g
January 7, 2011
On a phone call yesterday (January 5, 2011), we learned that Oracle has a public documentation page at this location. The point made during the conversation was that this Oracle documentation page does not include an explicit link to either Oracle Text or Oracle’s enterprise search systems, Oracle SES10g and SES11g.
Frankly, we did not believe this statement. We took a look.
We found that the person telling us about this omission was partially correct. If you download the documentation for the Oracle Database, there are references to Oracle Text. We did not spot a direct link on this Oracle page to the company’s enterprise search system.
You cannot locate the documentation by running the query “SES11g” from this link.
So what do you do if you want SES11g documentation?
Well, you have to do some scouting around. If you click, this link, you will get the PDF of “Oracle Universal Content Management.” The document was dated May 2010, and the information in that file will get you rolling.
We had in our bookmarks a link to a Web page on the Oracle site called “Oracle Secure Enterprise Search”. You can get what appears to be reasonably complete installation information at this link. If you are working with SES11g, you may already have this page bookmarked. If you want to know more about SES11g, this Installation and Upgrade Guide will be useful at some point.
You may find the mini-access page called Tahiti helpful as well: http://tahiti.oracle.com/
What’s this exercise suggest about Oracle’s commitment to search and retrieval? We were surprised to say the least. Adding and explicit link to the Oracle documentation page seems easy from our vantage point in Harrod’s Creek.
Stephen E Arnold, January 7, 2011
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Oracle is an excellent company and knows data as well as anyone. This is also what makes it ironic that their web site can be used as an example of why key word and math based seach technology is ineffective. After multiple test querries I was able to figure out that if “11g database” is used as the querry you end up at a second page of results. The results returned included a list of links to new links that contained some of the documentation that your phone caller was seeking about Oracle Enterprise Search. Obviously, this is not a good solution and is definetly not one that someone would want to try and scale or replicate.
Many companies find themselves in the same position today. Companies have too much data and not enough time or money to organize what they have or for that matter even understand what they have. This is whay semantics will lead the way into effective data management across the enterprise. If you can understand words in context you can then accurately tag and therefore leverage incredibly large volumes of data.