Acknowledgments

Special thanks go to Jonathan Gennick for providing invaluable input on the content, style, tone, and organization of this book. A huge thanks goes to Bernard Lopuz for his numerous suggestions and additions. Bernard also authored Chapter 20 on Oracle Secure Backup. Thanks also to the project manager Anita Castro and the copy editor Mary Behr and Tiffany Taylor. It takes a team to create a book like this.

Thanks to the numerous DBAs and developers who I've learned database administration techniques from over the years: Heidi Kuhn, Scott Schulze, Bob Suehrstedt, Dave Jennings, Pete Mullineaux, Ken Toney, Jay Nielsen, Tim Gorman, Shawn Heisdorffer, Doug Davis, Abid Malik, Sujit Pattanaik, Janet Bacon, Sue Wagner, Barb Sannwald, Ulises Llull, Ken Roberts, Roger Murphy, Mehran Sowdaey, Dan Fink, Guido Handley, Margaret Carson, Nehru Kaja, Tim Colbert, Robin Askham, Jon Nordby, Lou Ferrante, John Liu, Glenn Balanoff, Sam Conn, Bill Padfield, Inder Ganesan, Shari Plantz-Masters, Denise Duncan, Brad Blake, Mike Nims, Mark James, Arup Nanda, Charles Kim, Sam Alapati, Ravi Narayanaswamy, Kevin Bayer, Abdul Ebadi, Kevin Hoyt, Trent Sherman, Sandra Montijo, Jim Secor, Maureen Frazzini, Sean Best, Stephan Haisley, Geoff Strebel, Frank Bommarito, Patrick Gates, Krish Hariharan, Buzzy Cheadle, Mark Blair, Mike Hutchinson, Karen Kappler, Ennio Murroni, Beth Loker, Mike Eason, Tom Wheltle, Debbie Earman, Greg Roberts, Gabor Gyurovszky, Chad Heckman, Scott Norris, Mihir Shah, Joey Canlas, Gary Smith, Michael Del Toro, Mark Lutze, Kevin Quinlivan, Dave Bourque, Kevin Powers, Roy Backstrom, David Carpenter, Terri Durbin, Dean Price, Kathy Albrecht, Marina Richards, Andy Brown, Greg Oehmen, Erin Fox, Larry Carpenter, Joe Meeks, Ashish Ray, Amit Khatri, and Gaurav Mehta.

Thanks also to supportive colleagues: Mike Tanaka, John Lilly, Dave Wood, Laurie Bourgeois, Steve Buckmelter, Casey Costley, John DiVirgilio, John Goggin, Brett Guy, Simon Ip, Pascal Ledru, Kevin O'Grady, Peter Schow, Jeff Shoup, Todd Wichers, Doug Cushing, Will Thornburg, Steve Roughton, Ambereen Pasha, Dinesh Neelay, Thom Chumley, Jim LoPresti, Jeff Sherard, Dona Smith, Tae Kim, Gary Schut, Erik Jasiak, Don Gritzmacher, Carson Vowles, Aaron Isom, Deni Staheli, Mohan Koneru, Kristi Jackson, Karolyn Vowles, Ashley Jackson, Amin Jiwani, Mark Molnar, Khagendra Muthe, Kye Bae, Khanh Truong, Darcy O'Connor, Brad Vowles, Arvin Kuhn, Darin Christensen, Terry Roam, Odean Bowler, and Jim Stark.