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Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database

By : MARCEL KRATOCHVIL
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Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database

By: MARCEL KRATOCHVIL

Overview of this book

Multimedia is the new digital frontier. Managers, software architects, administrators and developers need to fully comprehend this exciting new technology as its widespread use and acceptance cannot be ignored any longer."Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database" will give you a complete understanding of how to manage all data, especially multimedia. You will learn all the latest terminology, how to set up a database, load digital objects, search on them and even how to sell them. Whether you are a manager or database administrator, this book will give you the knowledge you need to take control of this rapidly growing and industry- changing technology. Technology which is transforming our lives.Starting with the basic principles of unstructured data and detailing the concepts behind multimedia warehouses and digital asset management systems, this book will describe how to load this data, search against it, display it intelligently, and deliver it to customers and users. Learn how all these concepts work within the Oracle 11g R2 database environment and how to tune the database effectively to manage it.Begin to learn about this new and exciting field and use it to give your business a competitive edge or give yourself the ability to take a leadership role in this exciting new computing genre.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Why shell out?


There are a lot of different types of unstructured data in the market place. On top of this and as has been discussed in previous chapters, there is a huge variety of multimedia types. Oracle does not support all of these, so when it comes to processing them, which might involve transforming, extracting, or converting, the solution is to build a program that runs in the database in PL/SQL or Java. This program when run will invoke an external process to perform digital object processing and retrieve the results back into the database.

The processing could be done before the data is loaded into the database. Based on business requirements though, it might be more efficient or a business necessity to perform this after the data has been loaded into the database.

The following are examples of uses of shelling out of the database:

  • A DNG (Photo of type Adobe Digital Negative) has been loaded into the database, and a thumbnail needs to be extracted from the digital image. This involves...