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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

Summary


Tuning an Oracle Database to enable the ability to store large volumes of unstructured data involves more than just adjusting some database parameters. It involves the administrator being involved with management and the system administrators to procure the optimal hardware and then working closely with developers to get the design right for loading and retrieving digital objects. The database administrator needs to be well versed in how the network works, how it integrates with the firewall, and ensure there are no network bottlenecks.

The skill set required by the administrator also needs to be extended to include a very good knowledge on parallelism, hardware, partitioning and backup/recovery.

Chapter 9, Understanding the Limitations of Oracle Products, will review a set of products within the Oracle product set and describe how well they work with Oracle Multimedia.