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Pro Oracle Spatial For Oracle Database 11g
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Full title: | Pro Oracle Spatial For Oracle Database 11g |
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ISBN: | 9781430242871 |
ISBN 10: | 1430242876 |
Authors: | Ravikanth Kothuri |
Publisher: | Apress |
Edition: | 1 |
Num. pages: | 824 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2011 |
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Synopsis
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Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g shows how to take advantage of Oracle Databases builtin feature set for working with locationbased data. A great deal of the information used in business today is associated with location in some way, and analysis of that data is becoming ever more important in today's mobile and highly connected world. In Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g, authors Ravi Kothuri and Albert Godfrind address:
- The special nature of spatial data and its role in professional and consumer applications
- Issues in spatial data management such as modeling, storing, accessing, and analyzing spatial data
- The Oracle Spatial solution and the integration of spatial data into enterprise databases
- How spatial information is used to understand business and support decisions, to manage customer relations, and to better serve private and corporate users
What you’ll learn
- About new Oracle Spatial features in Oracle Database 11g, including support for the European Petroleum Standards Group (EPSG) data model, the ability to publish to Google Earth, integration with Google Maps, and much more
- The use of Oracles built-in SDO_GEOMETRY data type for storing locationbased data
- How to geocode your data, beginning with postal addresses and ending with SDO_GEOMETRY objects that enable future analysis as well as forming the foundation of working with spatial data within Oracle
- How to create and display maps to help you visualize and analyze your geocoded data
- About network modeling, which is useful in computing routes, travel distances, and proximity based upon travel time How to optimize analysis of your spatial data by creating spatial indexes and custom operators
Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g is aimed at software developers who wish to develop applications using Oracles extensive and strong support for working with spatial, or geocoded, data.