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Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository: A Full Life-Cycle Guide
In an effort to help database personnel manage the deluge of data generated by today's enterprise organizations, Microsoft, Oracle and other software vendors have spent millions developing meta data repositories. But repositories are large and complex, and developers need all the guidance they can get on developing, deploying and managing them. Written by a well-known columnist for DM Review magazine, this book gives it to them. This vendor-neutral guide provides coverage of meta data sources, standards and architecture.
Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images
This title is a textbook-style exposition on the topic, with its information organized very clearly into topics such as compression, indexing, and so forth. In addition to diagrams and example text transformations, the authors use "pseudo-code" to present algorithms in a language-independent manner wherever possible. They also supplement the reading with mg--their own implementation of the techniques. The mg C language source code is freely available on the Web.
