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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

Structures


A traditional data warehouse will usually not contain structures within it. The data will be stored in tables and joined together and queried as required. Summary and dimensional tables are also built to improve performance and give dimensional views of the relational data.

With a multimedia warehouse, the focus is different. Each digital image is viewed as an object with its associated metadata describing that object. The objects are still queried in an ad hoc fashion, and dimensional and summary tables are still built, but the objects are put into structures to help manage and control them. For the user querying the warehouse, these structures might be hidden, or they might be used to add intelligence or control to the queries performed.

The following describes some of the structures that can be deployed into a multimedia warehouse. Whether these structures are actually used is dependent on the type of objects being stored and the purpose of the multimedia warehouse.

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