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Published inMar 2013
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781849686921
Edition1st Edition
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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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There are numerous ways to configure an Oracle Database to store large volumes of unstructured data. Some of the key areas to review include the database block size, the size of the UNDO tablespace, the placement and sizes of the redo logs, and the configuration and extent size of the tablespaces used to store the data. Different architectural configurations are available based on the number of disks, CPUs, and available memory on the server. The use of solid state drives can improve load time performance.

Even though the Oracle XE database has no built in support for Java and Oracle multimedia, its usage should not be dismissed outright as a database for storing multimedia as its core architecture offers features and performance characteristics that still make it ideal to use.

Chapter 8, Tuning, will provide an introduction to database tuning for the novice administrator before covering in depth a number of multimedia tuning issues that the database administrator needs to consider...

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Published in: Mar 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849686921

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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