Tim Hall is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) DBA (7, 8, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g), Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) PL/SQL Developer, Oracle ACE Director and was chosen as Oracle ACE of the Year 2006 by Oracle Magazine Editors Choice Awards. He has been involved in DBA, design and development work with Oracle databases since 1994.

He has gained a wide knowledge of the Oracle software stack and has worked as a consultant for several multi-national companies on projects ranging from real-time control systems to OLTP web applications. Since 2000 he has published over 350 articles on his website (www.oracle-base.com) covering a wide range of Oracle features. His other publications include:

• Oracle PL/SQL Tuning (Rampant TechPress) 2006
• Using PL/SQL Arrays for Lookup Tables (IOUG SELECT Journal) 2005
• Oracle Job Scheduling (Rampant TechPress) 2005

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