About the Author

Martin Bach is an enthusiastic Oracle database administrator and co-author of Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux, also with Apress. He has specialized in the Oracle Database Management System since 2001. His main interests are high availability and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical 24x7 systems.

Martin is a proud member of the Oracle Certified Master community as well as an Oracle Ace, an accreditation which has been awarded based on his significant contribution and activity in the Oracle technical community. The greatest honor of all is to be a part of the Oak Table Network. The Oak Table is an informal network for the Oracle scientist, who believes in better ways of administering and developing Oracle-based systems.

Martin maintains a successful weblog at martincarstenbach.wordpress.com in addition to his written publications, which is regularly updated with his latest research results and additional information about this book.