Satishbabu Gunukula is an Oracle ACE. He has extensive experience in the Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database technologies, has held various roles such as Tech Lead, Project Lead, and Project Manager, and specialized in High Availability. He has implemented many business critical RAC and MAA systems for fortune 500, 1000 companies. He has experience on a wide range of products such as Oracle Hyperion, SAP Basis, MySQL, Linux, and Business Apps administration.
Satishbabu has done his Master's degree and he is an Oracle Certified DBA in 8i/9i/10g and Oracle Certified Expert in 10g RAC. He has written several articles in technical journals and blogs in the US, and spoken at Oracle-related conferences. He shares his knowledge on his websites — www.oracleracexpert.com and www.sqlserver-expert.com.
Edgar Lanting has been an IT pro for over 18 years, starting out as a System Administrator on AS/400, Windows, and Unix. After this he made the move to being a DBA. Edgar is versatile and a very skilled Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL Server DBA, and in combination with his past as a System Administrator this has proven to help him see things from more than one perspective when working in the field. Edgar is also a certified Oracle specialist.
Edgar is currently working as a Database Consultant for Ciber in the Netherlands where he assists companies in managing their database environments. In his spare time he likes to go out photographing birds and nature, and enjoys hiking with his wife and dog.
He is currently reviewing the iWork for Mac OSX Cookbook for Packt.
Marcin Przepiórowski started his Oracle DBA activities in 2000. For the last nine years he has been working as a Senior Oracle DBA and Consultant for many various customers in Poland and Ireland. He is interested in performance bottlenecks (using end-to-end approaches and all available monitoring possibilities), High Availability solutions (such as Oracle Real Application Cluster and Oracle DataGuard) and Backup and Recovery technology.
Marcin is an Oracle ACE and maintainer of the open source Simulated Active Session History (S-ASH) project. He used to publish posts about Oracle technologies on his blog at http://oracleprof.blogspot.com/ and speaks at conferences in Europe.