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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


There are numerous ways to configure an Oracle Database to store large volumes of unstructured data. Some of the key areas to review include the database block size, the size of the UNDO tablespace, the placement and sizes of the redo logs, and the configuration and extent size of the tablespaces used to store the data. Different architectural configurations are available based on the number of disks, CPUs, and available memory on the server. The use of solid state drives can improve load time performance.

Even though the Oracle XE database has no built in support for Java and Oracle multimedia, its usage should not be dismissed outright as a database for storing multimedia as its core architecture offers features and performance characteristics that still make it ideal to use.

Chapter 8, Tuning, will provide an introduction to database tuning for the novice administrator before covering in depth a number of multimedia tuning issues that the database administrator needs to consider...