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Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database

By : MARCEL KRATOCHVIL
Book Image

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

Unix


The Unix operating system was first developed in 1969. The trademark is currently owned by The Open Group, an industry standards consortium. The operating system is currently well-know for running on servers even though it can run equally well on desktops and mobile devices. Its popularity on desktops grew when Apple rewrote and ported its PowerPC operating system to a Unix variant called Max OS X. On servers, Unix remains a very popular operating system and most hardware vendors support one or more Unix or Unix-like variations on it.

How Unix differs from Windows

A lot of database administrators are either Unix administrators or Windows ones and not both. Finding an administrator skilled in both is quite rare. The reason is that to be an efficient administrator requires becoming well-versed and skilled in the underlying operating system. It's common to hear a Unix administrator make the comment that Oracle on Windows is small scale or use the colloquial term "mickey mouse". With recent...