About the Author

Kerry Osborne began working with Oracle (version 2) in 1982. He has worked as both a developer and a DBA. For the past several years he has been focused on understanding Oracle internals and solving performance problems. He is an OakTable member and an Oracle Ace Director. Kerry is a frequent speaker at Oracle conferences. He is also a co-founder of Enkitec, an Oracle-focused consulting company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. He blogs at kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com.

Randy Johnson is a Principal Consultant at Enkitec, a consulting firm specializing in Oracle. Randy has over 18 years of experience with Oracle beginning with Oracle 7 in the early 90s. Much of his career has combined Oracle DBA work with Unix administration duties. Over the last five years he has focused almost exclusively on RAC and ASM. He is also an authority on Oracle backup and recovery via RMAN, having written a popular utility for automating RMAN scripts called Dixie. Randy occasionally blogs at blog.enkitec.com.

Tanel Pöder is one of the leading Oracle performance specialists in the world, having helped solving complex problems for customers in over 20 countries on five continents. He specializes in advanced performance tuning, end-to-end troubleshooting, and other complex (and therefore interesting) tasks such as migrating VLDBs with very low downtime. Tanel has optimized the performance of Exadata installations starting from Exadata V1, and he plans to go even deeper with his current Exadata performance and troubleshooting research.

He is one of the first Oracle Certified Masters in the world, an Oracle ACE Director and a proud member of the OakTable Network.

Tanel regularly speaks at conferences worldwide and publishes his articles, scripts and tools in his blog at http://blog.tanelpoder.com.