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Published inMar 2013
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781849686921
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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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Not all countries in the world or organizations use one language. Some are bilingual, others support multiple languages. Data coming in from other sites might be in a different language. Museums around the world regularly share items, and the digital information relating to them might be in a different language.

The challenge for all these organizations is how to handle this data in the best way. The issues can be broken down to the following:

  • Storing

  • Displaying

  • Translating

  • Searching

All spoken languages can be represented in text; some phonetically, others in a representative structure. Different languages use different symbols to represent the pronunciation. Some languages use one symbol to represent a sound (phonetic), others use a mixture of one or more to represent the different sounds. Languages such as, English have introduced a large number of exceptions to this, so much that dictionaries need to include a pronunciation guide. English also has multiple symbols representing...

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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.
Read more about MARCEL KRATOCHVIL