About the Technical Reviewers

Arup Nanda (Email: [email protected]; Twitter: @arupnanda; LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/arupnanda/) has been an Oracle DBA for the last 18 years, spanning all aspects of the job from modeling to performance tuning. He specializes in RAC, Exadata, and High Availability solutions. He has authored four books on Oracle technology, written 500+ published articles, and presented almost 300 training sessions in 22 countries. He is an Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle ACE Director, member of the OakTable Network, member of the Board of Directors of Exadata SIG, and member of the Editorial Board for SELECT Journal (the IOUG publication). Acknowledging his accomplishments and community involvement, Oracle awarded him DBA of the Year in 2003 and Enterprise Architect of the Year in 2012. He blogs at http://arup.blogspot.com.

Sandesh Rao is a Senior Director running the RAC Assurance Team within RAC Development at Oracle Corporation specializing in performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and architecting cloud-based solutions using the Oracle Stack. With more than 14 years of experience working in the HA space and having worked on several versions of Oracle with different application stacks, he is a recognized expert in RAC, database internals, and solving big data–related problems. Most of his work involves working with customers in the implementation of projects in financial, retailing, scientific, insurance, biotech, and the tech space. His current position involves running a team that develops best practices for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c including products like RAC (Real Application Clusters) and Storage (ASM, ACFS). You can find more details about him and his work at www.linkedin.com/pub/sandesh-rao/2/956/1b7.