Re: Looking for a solution building in oracle 8.16 could use ideas/solutions

Why not just store the slide files themselves in Oracle?!!?

Instead of going through the external file pointer stuff, which was a real ***** in an image storage & retrieval 3rd party app we had once.; of course that was back in the stone age of 7.1 - 7.2; the vendor of course pointed to files that held the images externally.

"That vendor" still ticks me off whenever I think of them; they also wrote their own DB networking s/w, which spawned 8 processes per user just to get from desktop to the DB. (THAT, I put my foot down on, and SQL*NET miraculously was supported overnight, the day after I screamed at the company's president.)

But enough of that. Point is, even in 7, after hours my boss and I would play with storing an Access .mdb file in a column in Oracle and all kinds of tricks like those Russian wooden dolls that fit inside each other. It all worked just fine, and this was before CON*TEXT / media options were around. With create-your-own object types, and the vastly expanded media management features Oracle has these days, I'd store those guys (or gals) inside Oracle, and make use of the rich palette of features available today. Especially since .ppt files are not enormous, like say, trying to store Gone With The Wind in a table.

Just my own opinion / 1 cent worth; I'm sure there will be tons of people to disagree with me....

RSH. "WEBBOY" <webboy_at_totalconfusion.org> wrote in message news:onrq7uc5r14gv06hehh9u2k33kl0hk3fsj_at_4ax.com...
> Looking for a solution to a issue that has arose.
> I/we are building a database and are storing slides (powerpoint).
> the plan is to index jpegs of the slides and pointing them to the
> actual .ppt files
>
> The user can search the image database pick the slides they want and
> download them.
>
> The problem is how to feed the file back to the user as one complete
> powerpoint file?
>
> any sugestions?
>
> Oracle 8.16
> Any MS OS (will pick the one that fits the solution)
> IIS 5.0 (i think could be prior version)
> Could use web sphere (not sure yet if i need to)
> and have verity (search) available...
>
>
>
Received on Wed Feb 27 2002 - 20:07:32 CST