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MARCEL KRATOCHVIL
MARCEL KRATOCHVIL
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MARCEL KRATOCHVIL

Marcelle Kratochvil is an accomplished Oracle database administrator and developer. She is CTO of Piction and has designed and developed industry leading software for the management and selling of digital assets. She has also developed an award winning shipping and freight management system, designed and built a booking system, a sport management system, a e-commerce system, social network engine, a reporting engine and numerous search engines. She has been an Oracle beta tester since the original introduction of Oracle Multimedia. She is also a well known presenter at Oracle Conferences and has produced numerous technical podcasts. Born in Australia, she is living in Canberra. She is actively working as a database administrator on supporting a large number of customer sites internationally. She is also campaigning with Oracle to promote the use of storing all data and any data in a database. In her spare time she plays field hockey and does core research in artificial intelligence in database systems. Marcelle has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Australian National University and majored in computing and mathematics.
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A multimedia warehouse is based on the same concepts as a data warehouse but can vary dramatically, because the nature of the digital objects stored within it enable new capabilities and concepts. Most multimedia warehouses employ to some data transformation, cleansing, and cataloging to make them more efficient to query and report on. Additionally, they might transform the images, summarize, combine, and restructure them. The most popular usage is to web enable the frontend, enabling it to be queried and accessed via a web browser by the general public.

The data warehouse

The idea of a data warehouse has been around for a long time, and specialized software vendors have come about purely to address the needs of it. The data warehouse evolved from a number of different directions simultaneously. Academics then formulated more official rules governing what a data warehouse really is.

For some, the data warehouse came about to solve the performance issue of ad hoc queries causing havoc...

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MARCEL KRATOCHVIL

Marcelle Kratochvil is an accomplished Oracle database administrator and developer. She is CTO of Piction and has designed and developed industry leading software for the management and selling of digital assets. She has also developed an award winning shipping and freight management system, designed and built a booking system, a sport management system, a e-commerce system, social network engine, a reporting engine and numerous search engines. She has been an Oracle beta tester since the original introduction of Oracle Multimedia. She is also a well known presenter at Oracle Conferences and has produced numerous technical podcasts. Born in Australia, she is living in Canberra. She is actively working as a database administrator on supporting a large number of customer sites internationally. She is also campaigning with Oracle to promote the use of storing all data and any data in a database. In her spare time she plays field hockey and does core research in artificial intelligence in database systems. Marcelle has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Australian National University and majored in computing and mathematics.
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