About the Authors
Anton Els, Oracle ACE, is Vice President Engineering at Dbvisit Software Limited. Anton has more than 15 years of experience with Oracle technology, with a particular focus on the Oracle Database, backup and recovery, standby databases, Oracle Linux, virtualization, and docker. Anton is an active member of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and vice president of the New Zealand OUG (NZOUG). He is an Oracle Certified Master (OCM) Oracle Database 11g; Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Oracle Database 8i to 12c; Oracle Certified Expert (OCE) Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g and Grid Infrastructure Administrator; Red Hat 5 RHSA; and Oracle Solaris 10 SCSA. He regularly presents at industry and user group conferences, such as Collaborate, Oracle OpenWorld dbtech showcase Japan, NZOUG, and the Asia-Pacific and Latin America Oracle Technology Network Tour. He can be reached on Twitter @aelsnz or through his blog at www.oraclekiwi.co.nz.
Vít Špinka, Oracle ACE Associate, is Chief Architect at Dbvisit Software Limited. He has more than 15 years of experience with Oracle technology, with a particular focus on the Oracle Database. Vít is an active member of IOUG and a regular presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, Collaborate, UKOUG, DOAG, and NZOUG. He is an Oracle Certified Master (OCM) Oracle Database 10g, 11g, and 12c; Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Oracle Database 9i to 12c; Oracle Database 10g Real Application Cluster Administration Expert; and LPIC-2 Linux Network Professional. He can be reached on Twitter @vitspinka or through his blog at http://vitspinka.blogspot.com/.
Franck Pachot, Oracle ACE Director, is Principal Consultant, trainer, and Oracle Technology Leader at dbi services (Switzerland) with more than
20 years of experience with Oracle technology. Franck is a regular presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG Collaborate, DOAG, SOUG, and UKOUG; an active member of the SOUG and DOAG user groups; and a proud member of the OraWorld Team. He is an Oracle Certified Master (OCM) Oracle Database 11g and 12c, Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Oracle Database 8i to 12c, and Oracle Certified Expert (OCE) Oracle Database 12c: Performance Management and Tuning, and also holds an Oracle Exadata Database Machine 2014 Implementation Essentials certification. Franck can be reached on Twitter @franckpachot or through his blog at http://blog.pachot.net.
About the Technical Editors
Deiby Gómez was both the youngest Oracle ACE (23 years old) and ACE Director (25 years old) in the world and the first in his home country, Guatemala. He is also the youngest Oracle Certified Master 11g (OCM 11g, February 2015) in Latin America (24 years old) and the first in Guatemala. In addition, Deiby also became the youngest Oracle Certified Master 12c in the world (26 years old, April 2016) and the first OCM 12c in Central America. He is the recent winner of SELECT Journal Editor’s Choice Award 2016 (Las Vegas, NV) and a frequent speaker at Oracle events around the world, including Oracle Technology Network Latin American Tour 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016; Collaborate (United States); and Oracle Open World (Brazil and United States). The first Guatemalan accepted as a beta tester by Oracle Database (version 12cR2), Deiby has had several articles published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese on Oracle’s website, DELL’s Toad World, and hundreds more on his blog. He appeared in Oracle Magazine in Nov/Dec 2014 as an outstanding expert and currently serves as the President of Oracle Users Group of Guatemala (GOUG), Director of Support Quality in Latin American Oracle Users Group Community (LAOUC), and co-founder of OraWorld Team. He also currently provides Oracle services in Latin America with his own company, NUVOLA, S.A.
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 has written about 500 published articles, co-authored five books, delivered 300 sessions, blogs at arup.blogspot.com, and mentors new and seasoned DBAs. He won Oracle’s DBA of the Year in 2003 and Enterprise Architect of the Year in 2012, and he is an ACE Director and a member of Oak Table Network.
About the Technical and Language Editor
Mike Donovan joined the Dbvisit team in 2007, where he has held a number of different roles, including head of the Global Support team and Digital Business Development pioneer. He has recently been appointed to the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He is enthusiastic about new technologies and working with customers and partners to conceive of and build bridges between the existing RDBMS world and the new frontiers of Big Data, for businesses’ benefit. He is motivated by championing smart, cost-effective approaches and alternatives. Mike has a diverse background in technology and the arts and considerable experience in technical customer support and software development. He is passionate about Oracle Database technology, having worked with it for more than a decade; spoken at numerous industry conferences including OOW, RMOUG, dbtech showcase Japan, and Collaborate; spent time as a production DBA; and gained certifications on this RDBMS platform in versions 9i to 12c.