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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

Electronic commerce


The e-commerce store is a digital frontend, web-based shop, focused around the selling and delivery of digital objects. As the business requirement can overlap so tightly between digital and physical objects, both are defined and described in this section.

The e-commerce system can be hosted anywhere in the world. It can allow anyone to browse and buy items, or it can enforce the need to create an account with the shop to perform transactions.

The interface should be HTML based or use a web service layer to integrate with it. For mobile devices, such as an iPad or Smartphone, then a specialized application is required. In these cases the shop should be looking at providing a HTML storefront first followed by Smartphone applications.

It's important that the shopfront is integrated. It should offer the one interface to buy any items and mix different item types in the one purchase. A customer should (if the business sells it) be able to buy a digital photo and download it...