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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

Basic database configuration concepts


When a database administrator first creates a database that they know will contain digital objects, they will be confronted with some basic database configuration questions covering key sizing features of the database.

When looking at the Oracle Database there are a number of physical and logical structures built inside the database. To avoid confusion with other database management systems, it's important to note that an Oracle Database is a collection of schemas, whereas in other database management the terminology for a database equates to exactly one schema. This confusion has caused a lot of issues in the past. An Oracle Database administrator will say it can take 30 minutes to an hour to create a database, whereas a SQL Server administrator will say it takes seconds to create a database. In Oracle to create a schema (the same as a SQL Server database) also takes seconds to perform.

For the physical storage of tables, the Oracle Database is composed...