Chapter 2. Getting Started with Proximity

Table of Contents

Overview
Using the Tutorial
Tutorial conventions
Setting up your environment
Using Proximity
Running the MonetDB database server
Running Proximity applications
DTD files
File and directory shortcuts
Logging options
Contact information
Tips and Reminders

Overview

Proximity provides a suite of applications to support knowledge discovery in relational databases. These applications let you manage and browse databases, create and execute queries, and learn and apply models. This chapter describes the general steps required to use any of these applications. Each specific application is described in more detail in later chapters.

Objectives

The text and exercises in this chapter demonstrate how to

  • use this tutorial effectively

  • run the MonetDB database server

  • run Proximity applications