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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

Exercises


  1. Define a pricing model for a subscription based service, offering unlimited access to digital movies, with varying pricing for different countries in the world.

  2. For an auction, determine some of the business actions that can be implemented to stop or discourage the behavior of bidding in the last 60 seconds.

  3. Define some methods for delivery of digital images that improve on the speed of the digital object being delivered.

  4. Group images. Describe a business model for how multiple digital objects can be purchased and grouped together for a print (for example, combine five photos onto the one framed print).

  5. For a mixed or multi-type purchase, define what other types can be effectively purchased besides these ones: Digital photos, audio, video, documents as well as physical items, such as merchandise and tickets for venues and subscriptions for services. For these new types how easily do they fit into the e-commerce model?