About the Author

Iggy Fernandez has been working in the IT industry for almost three decades including almost two decades of experience as an Oracle Database administrator supporting databases big and small, for companies big and small, including a stint as the manager of the Oracle Database administration team of a large service provider. His favorite part of Oracle Database administration is database tuning and SQL tuning because they can often be puzzles that require a creative solutions. He edits the NoCOUG Journal (https://nocoug.wordpress.com/nocoug-journal-archive/), organizes the NoCOUG SQL Challenges, speaks at Oracle user group conferences, and blogs at https://iggyfernandez.wordpress.com/ and http://www.toadworld.com/members/iggy_5f00_fernandez/blogs/default.aspx. He is @OraTweets on Twitter.