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Image, Audio, and Video Extenders Administration and Programming


Part 1. Introduction

Partial Table-of-Contents

  • Chapter 1. Overview
  • Exploiting DB2
  • Powerful new ways to search for information
  • The DB2 extenders
  • The SDK and run-time environments
  • Using the extenders
  • Examples
  • Example 1: Retrieving a video by its characteristics
  • Example 2: Searching for images by content
  • Operating environments
  • Chapter 2. DB2 extender concepts
  • Object-oriented concepts
  • Large objects
  • User-defined types
  • User-defined functions
  • UDF and UDT names
  • Function path
  • Overloaded function names
  • Triggers
  • Extender data structures
  • Administrative support tables
  • Handles
  • QBIC catalogs
  • Video indexes
  • Shot catalogs
  • Partitioned database concepts (EEE only)
  • Parallel processing
  • Scalability
  • Using DB2 extenders in a partitioned database environment
  • Security and recovery
  • Chapter 3. How the extenders work
  • An extender scenario
  • Starting extender services
  • Preparing a database
  • Preparing a table
  • Altering a table
  • Inserting data into a table
  • Selecting data from a table
  • Displaying and playing objects
  • Updating data in a table
  • Deleting data from a table

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