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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

Exercises


The following tuning issues are based on real-life experiences. The solutions to them cannot be found in this chapter or on the Internet, but require real-life tuning experience to resolve them. A database administrator who is trained to think laterally is likely to be able to come up the solutions to them very quickly, after eliminating the obvious non issues.

  1. Describe the approach an administrator should take to resolve this real life Oracle 11.2.0.2 tuning issue. At 1 a.m. a batch job starts running to load new images into a multimedia warehouse. The batch job takes about five hours to run. Every night at 3 a.m. the batch slows to a crawl or stops altogether even though there is nothing else running on the server.

    Note: It's likely only an experienced database administrator can resolve this.

  2. An organization has two servers with identical configuration (memory, disk, and CPU) and Oracle database version 11.2.0.2 databases on them. At 3 p.m. an identical job is run on both to process...