> about? Of course they just scratched the surface in 8i but in 9i it's
> all
> about that. I can search binary data, both clob and blob. They can be
> stored
> within the database structure itself or in separate files associated
> with
> the db structure. They have little or nothing to do at all with
> relational
> modeling.
>
InterMedia is just an abstraction. The BLOBs and CLOBs are stored just
as they always are, so when you need to search inside them InterMedia
retrieves the object, "transforms" it into what is supposed to be (PDF,
XML, etc) and only then is able to look inside it. As far as separate
files associated with the DB structure, that isn't an InterMedia
feature; that is just a BFile type, which stores a pointer to a binary
file on the file system.
-Matt
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