Acknowledgments

Special thanks go to Jonathan Gennick. His vision and keen organizational and writing skills have made this book a much greater sum than its parts. A big thank-you to Bernard Lopuz, who made countless suggestions and modifications that contributed tremendously to the quality of the final product. Bernard also authored Chapter 20, on Oracle Secure Backup. Thanks also to Fuad Arshad, who provided a technical review of several chapters to help keep us on schedule. I would like to thank as well the coordinating editor, Kevin Shea; the copy editor, Lisa Vecchione; and the entire Apress production team.

Finally, my thanks to the numerous database administrators, system administrators, and developers from whom I’ve learned database administration techniques over the years: Roger Murphy, Bob Suehrstedt, Scott Schulze, Dave Jennings, Pete Mullineaux, Shawn Heisdorffer, Tim Gorman, Sujit Pattanaik, Ken Toney, Janet Bacon, Sue Wagner, Doug Davis, Ken Roberts, Mehran Sowdaey, Dan Fink, Steve Roughton, Barb Sannwald, Andy Brown, Guido Handley, Nehru Kaja, Tim Colbert, Patrick Gates, Bill Padfield, Bob Mason, Glenn Balanoff, Ravi Narayanaswamy, Kevin Bayer, Abdul Ebadi, Kevin Hoyt, Trent Sherman, Sandra Montijo, Sean Best, Roy Backstrom, Mohan Koneru, John Lilly, Todd Wichers, Mike Tanaka, Will Thornburg, Ashley Jackson, Aaron Isom, Carson Vowles, Kevin Cook, Doug Cushing, Jeff Sherard, Liz Brill, Greg Roberts, Debbie Earman, Ennio Murroni, Beth Loker, Bob Sell, Mike O’Neill, Tom Wheltle, Gabor Gyurovszky, Gary Smith, Mark Lutze, and Jim Stark.

—Darl Kuhn