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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

Configuring the Oracle embedded gateway


The goal of this section is to show you how to configure Oracle Database for the embedded PL/SQL gateway. For Oracle XE, the embedded gateway comes configured for Apex by default.

All configuration is done via SQL*Plus. SQL*Plus represents the lowest common interface available across all Oracle versions. The command-line interface when used with a text editor enables quick and easy modification of most Oracle features.

Tools like Oracle SQL Developer and Enterprise Manager can also be used, but it is best to have a good understanding of the core capabilities before using GUI development tools:

  1. Use SQL*Plus to connect to the database as SYS:

         sqlplus / as sysdba
  2. Check to make sure the database parameter dispatchers are correctly configured to allow the database to talk to the listener:

    SQL> show parameter dispatchers

    The output should look like the following:

    NAME          TYPE        VALUE
    ------------------------------------ ----------- ----------...