Oracle 10g Developing Media Rich Applications

Chapter 13. Advanced Queries

Introduction

The ability to retrieve and manipulate data and obtain information from a rich-media database is, of course, a long-term essential objective for information systems. However, this objective is very challenging. All humans are naturally good at understanding multimedia information, recalling audio and visual images, and linking complex information together. The way in which the human visual system in the brain is able to do this is not well understood although clearly this involves a number of transformations to the data received by the sensory systems in the brain. In contrast, people have to spend years learning how to deal with text, spoken and written. However, text is much easier for computers to deal ...