• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.107-112
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• 2005

We need a research for representing and processing of multimedia data in database because of increasing the importance and utilization of the data owing to development of internet technology. RDBMS supports only the storing-structure to store multimedia, but the support for data type, representation and query of multimedia is insufficient. To cope with this problem, ISO/IEC standardized SQL multimedia(SQL/MM) for multimedia data. However, ORDBMS supports SQL/MM, but RDBMS does not support it. Therfore, this theis proposes a query interpreter to support SQL/MM in MS-SQL 2000 as one of RDBMS and introduces a image retrieval application using it. The quary interpreter supports the function to convert SQL/MM into SQL, and additionally the function of the image duplication check. The image processing application using a query interpreter can easily be integrated and operated with traditional RDBMS-based system.