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About the Author Kerry Osborne began working with Oracle (version 2) in 1982. He hasworked as both a developer and a DBA. For the past several years he hasbeen focused on understanding Oracle internals and solving performanceproblems. He is an OakTable member and an Oracle Ace Director. Kerry is afrequent speaker at Oracle conferences. He is also a co-founder of Enkitec,an Oracle-focused consulting company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Heblogs at kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com. Randy Johnson is a Principal Consultant at Enkitec, a consulting firmspecializing in Oracle. Randy has over 18 years of experience with Oraclebeginning with Oracle 7 in the early 90s. Much of his career has combinedOracle DBA work with Unix administration duties. Over the last five years hehas focused almost exclusively on RAC and ASM. He is also an authority onOracle backup and recovery via RMAN, having written a popular utility forautomating RMAN scripts called Dixie. Randy occasionally blogs atblog.enkitec.com. Tanel Põder is one of the leading Oracle performance specialists in theworld, having helped solving complex problems for customers in over 20countries on five continents. He specializes in advanced performance tuning,end-to-end troubleshooting, and other complex (and therefore interesting)tasks such as migrating VLDBs with very low downtime. Tanel has optimizedthe performance of Exadata installations starting from Exadata V1, and heplans to go even deeper with his current Exadata performance andtroubleshooting research.He is one of the first Oracle Certified Masters in the world, an Oracle ACEDirector and a proud member of the OakTable Network.Tanel regularly speaks at conferences worldwide and publishes his articles, scripts and tools in his blogat http://blog.tanelpoder.com.xvi