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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

Summary


With this rise in the usage of digital objects, the business requirements for an e-commerce system has grown dramatically. A business needs to be adaptable and change quickly when the market changes. To achieve this, a business needs a system that utilizes dynamically adjustable rule sets, each performing different business requirements.

Image purchasing, pricing, and control of the order process are best handled and centered around metadata and roles. This focuses the whole process around the data and gets away from rigid structures which might be hard to adjust when the need arises.

An e-commerce system should work equally well on the Internet via a HTML browser as well as on portable devices using applications and web services, such as the iPad, iPhone and other smart-phone devices.

In Chapter 7, Techniques for Creating a Multimedia Database, focus now moves to how to configure an Oracle database to manage and store multimedia.