August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 58m
English

When you first start learning about databases, most of the focus is on the three core datatypes (DATE, NUMBER, and VARCHAR2). However, in reality, media (pictures, movies, documents, and sounds) represents the largest and fastest growing part of any contemporary IT system. As a result, correct handling of such data is as critical to overall project success as the effective manipulation of financial information or number crunching. Also, since the total volume of media content is usually distributed across a reasonably small number of attributes, the cost of mishandling each of them is much higher.
It is common ...