Data mining in databases is part of the interdisciplinary field of knowledge discovery used for extracting patterns and relationships amongst the data sets from a data source. This paper focuses on mining data from a database. The study further identifies how data mining techniques can be used to support digital forensic investigation in a digital crime case. Digital forensic models are reviewed, concepts mapped onto experimental cases and tested on a Pentium (R) Core ™ 2 Duo CPU, 1.89 GHz with Windows XP Professional OS. The findings supported the benefits of integrating data mining principles in extracting data for digital evidence.

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