About the Reviewers
Gokhan Atil is an independent consultant who has been working in IT since 2000. He worked as a Development and Production DBA, Trainer and Software Developer. He has a strong background in Linux and Solaris systems. He's an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) for Oracle Database 10g and 11g, and has hands-on experience with Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i. He is an active member of the Oracle community and has written and presented papers at various conferences. He's also a founding member of the Turkish Oracle User Group (TROUG).
He was honored with the Oracle ACE Award in 2011. He has a blog in which he has shared his experience with Oracle since 2008:
Ben van Eyle is an independent consultant with 26 years of experience in the IT industry with most of that time dealing with databases and database systems, including Oracle, SQL Server and Ingres.
He has designed and built distributed database systems and high availability systems, as well as worked on SAP systems and Oracle data warehouses, mostly for government department.
Ben currently resides in Canberra.
Satishbabu Gunukula has over 13 years of experience in the IT industry. He has extensive experience in Oracle and SQLServer Database Technologies, and is specialized in high availability solutions such as Oracle RAC, Data Guard, Grid Control, and SQL Server Cluster. He has a master's degree in Computer Applications.
He has been honored with the prestigious Oracle ACE Award. He has experience with a wide range of products, such as Essbase, Hyperion, Agile, SAP Basis, MySQL, Linux, Windows, and Business Apps admin and he has implemented many business critical systems for Fortune 500, 1000 companies.
He review articles for SELECT Journal – the publication of IOUG – and reviews books for Packt Publishing. He is an active member in IOUG, Oracle RAC SIG, UKOUG, and OOW and has published many articles and presentations. He shares his knowledge on his websites:
http://www.oracleracexpert.com and http://www.sqlserver-expert.com.
Tim Hall is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) DBA/Developer, Oracle ACE Director, OakTable Network member and was chosen as Oracle ACE of the Year 2006 by Oracle Magazine Editor's Choice Awards. He has been involved in DBA, design, and development work with Oracle Databases since 1994.
Although focusing on database administration and PL/SQL development, he has gained a wide knowledge of the Oracle software stack and has worked as a consultant for several multinational companies on projects ranging from real-time control systems to OLTP web applications.
Since the year 2000, he has published over 400 articles on his website (www.oracle-base.com) covering a wide range of Oracle features.
Pete Sharman is a Principal Product Manager in the Enterprise Manager team at Oracle. He has worked at Oracle for 18 years in a variety of roles both in Australia and the USA, and has presented at a number of conferences, including Oracle Open World, the Hotsos Symposium and RMOUG Training Days. He is also a member of the OakTable Network.