Gokhan Atil is an Oracle ACE Director and DBA team lead at Bilyoner.com in Istanbul, Turkey. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and NoSQL databases. He has a strong background in software development and UNIX systems. Gokhan is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), and he specializes in high availability solutions, performance tuning, and monitoring tools.
Gokhan is a founding member and current vice president of Turkish Oracle User Group (TROUG). He's also a member of Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG). Gokhan has presented at various conferences, and he is a coauthor of Expert Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c book.
Gokhan shares his experience of working with Oracle products by blogging at www.gokhanatil.com since 2008 and on Twitter with the handle @gokhanatil.
Dmitri Levin has been working as a database administrator for more than 20 years.
His areas of interest include the database design, replication, and performance tuning. Dmitri has spoken at several national and international conferences.
He is currently working as senior database architect and administrator at alphabroder co.
Dmitri has an MS degree in Mathematics from St. Petersburg University, Russia, Oracle Database 11g OCA, and MS SQL Server 2012 certified DBA.
He can be reached at [email protected].
Osama Mustafa (Oracle ACE Director) has progressive experience in the Oracle products community. He recently served as an Oracle DBA team leader and is certified in Oracle products, such as Fusion middleware, and is a database professional, Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist, and certified Solaris System Administrator. He loves to share his learning with the Oracle community, so when he is not delivering an Oracle-related session, he spends a lot of his time participating in OTN (Oracle Technology Network) discussion forums.
Osama Mustafa is a popular speaker at many Oracle conferences around the world. He is also the President and Director of JAOUG (Jordan Amman Oracle User Group, which is the first group in Jordan). He worked as an Oracle database developer and Oracle database administrator, and now he is a Fusion middleware security specialist and certified in multiple oracle products.
In addition to this, Osama is a volunteer in Oracle User Group, an author for Oracle penetration testing books, and a reviewer for Oracle books such as Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration Beginner's Guide and Oracle 11g Anti-hacker's Cookbook. He also organizes RAC Attack around the world, publishes online articles on his blog https://osamamustafa.blogspot.com, and his articles are published in Oracle Magazine and OTech magazine. Osama Mustafa is active on Twitter as @osamaoracle and his blog.
First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents and my family for allowing me to follow my ambitions throughout my childhood and for standing beside me throughout my career. Special thanks to the girl who changed my life for the better and taught me a lot of things in life.
They have all been the inspiration and motivation for continuing to improve my knowledge and move my career forward and having the patience with me for having taken yet another challenge, which decreases the amount of time I can spend with them, and I hope that one day they can understand why I spent so much time in front of my computer.
Thanks to my friends and Oracle community friends around the world who support me and guide me to be the person I am today.
Arup Nanda has been an Oracle DBA for more than 20 years with experience spanning all aspects from modeling to performance tuning and Exadata. He gives speeches frequently; he has authored about 500 articles and coauthored 5 books. He also blogs at arup.blogspot.com and mentors new and seasoned DBAs. He won the Oracle's DBA of the Year in 2003 and Enterprise Architect of the Year awards in 2012. He is also an Oracle ACE director and a member of Oak Table Network.
He is the author of Oracle Privacy Security Auditing, Rampant TechPress (2005), Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs, O'Reilly (2005), Oracle 10g New Features, Oracle Press (2007), Oracle RMAN Recipes, Apress (2007 and 2013), Expert Oracle Practices, Apress (2013), and Expert PL/SQL Practices, Apress (2014). He has reviewed many books but prefers not to mention all of them here due to lack of space.
To my beautiful wife Anu and son Anish for putting up with me during the review of this book.
Kenneth Roth is an Oracle Certified Professional with over 25 years of IT experience primarily focused on Oracle database products. Ken has worked in a variety of IT-related roles and industries, including financial services, transportation, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and the public sector. Based in Chicago, he currently enjoys the freedom, variety, and challenges associated with being an independent technology consultant.