Part III

Reference Information

This document has the following parts:

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

• Part II provides conceptual and usage information about Oracle Spatial Web services.

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

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

Part III contains the following chapters with reference information:

• Chapter 18, "SQL Statements for Indexing Spatial Data"

• Chapter 19, "Spatial Operators"

• Chapter 20, "Spatial Aggregate Functions"

• Chapter 21, "SDO_CS Package (Coordinate System Transformation)"

• Chapter 22, "SDO_CSW_PROCESS Package (CSW Processing)"

• Chapter 23, "SDO_GCDR Package (Geocoding)"

• Chapter 24, "SDO_GEOM Package (Geometry)"

• Chapter 25, "SDO_LRS Package (Linear Referencing System)"

• Chapter 26, "SDO_MIGRATE Package (Upgrading)"

• Chapter 27, "SDO_OLS Package (OpenLS)"

• Chapter 28, "SDO_PC_PKG Package (Point Clouds)"

• Chapter 29, "SDO_SAM Package (Spatial Analysis and Mining)"

• Chapter 30, "SDO_TIN_PKG Package (TINs)"

• Chapter 31, "SDO_TUNE Package (Tuning)"

• Chapter 32, "SDO_UTIL Package (Utility)"

• Chapter 33, "SDO_WFS_LOCK Package (WFS)"

• Chapter 34, "SDO_WFS_PROCESS Package (WFS Processing)"

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".