Oracle Spatial User's Guide and Reference - InfoLab

For information about spatial concepts, the SDO_GEOMETRY object type, and
indexing and loading spatial data, see Chapters 1 through 4 in this guide. For
reference and usage information about features supported by Locator, see the
chapter or section listed in Table B–1.
Table B–1 Spatial Features Supported for Locator
Spatial Feature Described in
Function-based spatial indexing Section 9.2
Table partitioning support for spatial indexes (including
splitting, merging, and exchanging partitions and their
indexes)
B-2 Oracle Spatial User’s Guide and Reference
Section 4.1.6 and
Section 4.1.7
Geodetic data support Section 6.2 and Section 6.4
SQL statements for creating, altering, and deleting indexes
(except deferred updates to spatial indexes, as noted in
Table B–2)
Parallel spatial index builds (PARALLEL keyword with ALTER
INDEX REBUILD and CREATE INDEX statements) (new with
release 9.2)
Chapter 10
Chapter 10
SDO_GEOMETRY object type methods Chapter 11
Spatial operators Chapter 12
Implicit coordinate system transformations for operator calls
where a window needs to be converted to the coordinate
system of the queried layer
The following SDO_GEOM package functions and procedures:
SDO_GEOM.SDO_DISTANCE
SDO_GEOM.VALIDATE_GEOMETRY_WITH_CONTEXT
SDO_GEOM.VALIDATE_LAYER_WITH_CONTEXT
SDO_GEOM.VALIDATE_GEOMETRY (deprecated)
SDO_GEOM.VALIDATE_LAYER (deprecated)
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
SDO_AGGR_MBR spatial aggregate function (new to Locator Chapter 14
with release 9.2)
Package (SDO_MIGRATE) to upgrade data from previous Chapter 17
Spatial releases to the current release
Object replication Oracle Database Advanced
Replication
Graphical tool for tuning spatial quadtree indexes (Spatial
Index Advisor integrated application in Oracle Enterprise
Manager)
Online help for Oracle
Enterprise Manager