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Published inMar 2013
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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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Basic database configuration concepts


When a database administrator first creates a database that they know will contain digital objects, they will be confronted with some basic database configuration questions covering key sizing features of the database.

When looking at the Oracle Database there are a number of physical and logical structures built inside the database. To avoid confusion with other database management systems, it's important to note that an Oracle Database is a collection of schemas, whereas in other database management the terminology for a database equates to exactly one schema. This confusion has caused a lot of issues in the past. An Oracle Database administrator will say it can take 30 minutes to an hour to create a database, whereas a SQL Server administrator will say it takes seconds to create a database. In Oracle to create a schema (the same as a SQL Server database) also takes seconds to perform.

For the physical storage of tables, the Oracle Database is composed...

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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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