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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

Finding the images


The situation most business find is that their digital objects are sitting on one or more drives, and they need to find them all. They might want to sort out the good images from the bad ones before loading. If they were copied over from a Apple Macintosh computer, then the Mac header information will be copied as another file, in effect creating a ghost version of it.

If the Mac file is called myimage.jpg, then when transferred to Window or Unix, the file .myimage.jpg will also come across. This file is not a digital image but contains Apple Macintosh's specific-header information. It needs to be ignored.

A business might also want to ignore digital objects below a certain size or ignore those of a certain type. The challenge is sorting out the wheat from the chaff.

Unfortunately, Oracle does not provide any database utilities that can help the business achieve this. In fact, to get a directory listing of a file system it should have one of these options:

  • Shell out to the...