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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

Tier architecture


The rules surrounding technology are constantly changing. Decisions and architectures based on current technology might easily become out of date with hardware changes. To best understand how multimedia and unstructured data fit and can adapt to the changing technology, it's important to understand how and why we arrived at our different current architectural positions. In some cases we have come full circle and reinvented concepts that were in use 20 years ago. Only by learning from the lessons of the past can we see how to move forward to deal with this complex environment.

In the past 20 years a variety of architectures have come about in an attempt to satisfy some core requirements:

  • Allow as many users as possible to access the system

  • Ensure those users had good performance for accessing the data

  • Enable those users to perform DML (insert/update/delete) safely and securely (safely implies ability to restore data in the event of failure)

The goal of a database management system...