EXTENDING A DATABASE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS

摘要

The large object(LOB) such as text, image, audio, video, etc. has become one of the typically encountered datarntype in today’s multimedia information systems for business and other applications alike, and thus, needs tornbe efficiently and conveniently handled through the database application programming interface(API). Thisrnpaper proposes an extension of the SQL Call Level Interface, a widely used API for database access, forrnefficient and convenient LOB manipulation and definition .