About the Reviewers
April Sims is currently the Database Administrator at Southern Utah University and an Oracle Certified Professional: 8i, 9i, and 10g with a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. Involved as a volunteer with the Independent Oracle Users Group for over seven years, April is currently a Contributing Editor for the IOUG SELECT Journal. April is an annual presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG COLLABORATE, and numerous regional Oracle-related conferences.
Advait V. Deo is a graduate from NIT, Nagpur and a post graduate from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani. After graduation he joined TCS and worked there for a couple of years. Later, he joined Oracle Corp. and worked closely with databases.
He's had seven years' experience working in the database world, having spent time on many aspects of database till now starting from Oracle Version 8 until 11g. He mainly focuses on database performance tuning, integrating databases with front-end application, scripting, and automation. Currently he is working as a Lead Database Administrator in Amazon.com, Inc. (world leader in retail business), handling a fleet of around 300 production databases.
Currently he resides in Hyderabad, India, with his wife Abha. In his time off from his busy work schedule, he spends quality time with his family, riding a bike, and watching movies.
He updates some of his work and learning on his website at http://www.avdeo.com, whenever he gets time.
Asif Momen has been working with Oracle technologies for over 12 years and has expertise in performance tuning and high availability. He has a master''s degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani.
Asif is an Oracle ACE and is OCP-Certified DBA, Forms Developer, and RAC Expert. He is a speaker at Oracle OpenWorld and All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG). In addition, he is the Editor of Oracle Connect—the quarterly publication of AIOUG. His particular interests are Database tuning, Oracle RAC, Oracle Data Guard, and Backup and Recovery.
Asif posts his ideas and opinions on The Momen Blog (http://momendba.blogspot.com). He can be reached at <asif.momen@gmail.com>.
