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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

Searching


When it comes to searching, most people have a Google or Bing mentality. This means they have been inadvertently trained in search behavior because of their extensive usage of these search tools. They are used to typing in a word or two and have the results come back in a ranked order. This type of search is a course grained search. It is effective when you are blindly reaching out trying to find a match. Users then look at the results and narrow down their search manually by checking the results to see if it was what they were after.

This type of searching is very effective when the information is spread across a large number of systems. It is not effective when more refined or fine grain search methods are requested. These search systems are also based around the concept of HTML page being the only type of digital object being searched on.

A number of these search engines struggle or just cannot handle fine grained queries. If a user wanted to find all images that were portrait...