Chapter 8. Media in Object Types
This chapter looks in greater detail at the nature and characteristics of the different kinds of media objects and the specific needs for text, audio, image, and video applications. Through a study of this chapter the reader will develop a broad overview of the role of media objects within database development and should then be able to understand
The general features of a variety of media object types and their deployment in relational and object tables.
The role played by SQL objects to develop more complex objects.
Media Objects
In Chapter 3 we learned that object types have the general structure shown in Figure 8.1.
Figure 8.1. Classes and object types.
A key concept in SQL:1999 is that user-defined data types would ...
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