Vector helper procedures let you configure authentication credentials, preferences, and language-specific data for use in chainable utility functions.

At a high level, the supplied vector helper procedures include:

• Credential helper procedures to securely manage authentication credentials, which are used to access third-party providers when making REST API calls.

  Function	Description
  CREATE_CREDENTIAL	Creates a credential name for securely storing user authentication credentials in Oracle Database.
  DROP_CREDENTIAL	Drops an existing credential name.

• Preference helper procedures to manage vectorizer preferences, which are used when creating or altering hybrid vector indexes.

  Function	Description
  CREATE_PREFERENCE	Creates a vectorizer preference in the database.
  DROP_PREFERENCE	Drops an existing vectorizer preference from the database.

• Chunker helper procedures to manage custom vocabulary and language data, which are used when chunking user data.

  Function	Description
  CREATE_VOCABULARY	Loads your own vocabulary file into the database.
  DROP_VOCABULARY	Removes the specified vocabulary data from the database.
  CREATE_LANG_DATA	Loads your own language data file (abbreviation tokens) into the database.
  DROP_LANG_DATA	Removes abbreviation data for a given language from the database.