Location-oriented data may best be represented using spatial coordinates. Documents,
images, video clips, and audio clips have their own special requirements for
storage and retrieval.
Oracle has extended the functionality of its basic relational database engine to support
the storage and manipulation of these nontraditional datatypes through the
introduction of additional features and options. Oracle has also extended the types
of data, the SQL that manipulates that data, and the basic Oracle service framework
so that you can modify the data and extend its capabilities even further.
Object-Oriented Development
An object-oriented approach to software development shifts the focus from building
computing procedures that operate on sets of data to modeling business processes.
Building software components that model business processes with documented
interfaces makes programming more efficient and allows applications to offer more
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flexible deployment strategies. It also makes applications easier to modify when business
conditions change.
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