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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

Unload and load digital objects


When it comes to shelling out of the database and processing a digital object, it becomes apparent that the digital object needs to be unloaded and saved into the filesystem for processing. This is an additional process and can take time if the digital object is quite large. By using Oracle Securefiles, this step is much faster to perform, but it still is an additional step. Though there are many disadvantages to storing a digital object outside the database, the one advantage in doing it can be seen when it comes to external processing. By storing, it externally needs to unload and reload the processed digital object that is removed. This simplifies the process.

As has been covered in previous chapters, one of the exciting features in the latest 11gR2 release is the Oracle Database File System. This removes the need to unload the digital object when it's stored in the database. This is because the filesystem is integrated with the database. In this case, all...