About the Authors
Zoran Pavlović has worked on various complex database environments including RAC, ASM, Data Guard, GoldenGate, and so on. Areas of his expertise are security, performance/SQL tuning and high availabilty/disaster recovery of Oracle database. He has been working as an instructor for Oracle University since 2010 and during that time he has trained more than 200 students in Europe. In the last couple of years, Zoran has also been working on projects for Oracle Consulting. He is an Oracle ACE and he has been featured speaker/author at many conferences/magazines. He was actively engaged in beta testing Oracle Database 12c. Currently, Zoran is working as an Oracle Technical Architect in Parallel d.o.o. Belgrade.
I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge some important people in my life who continuously inspire and support me. First, I want to say thank you to my parents Milenko and Stanojka Pavlovic, for everything they taught me, and for all the support they gave me during all these years. Second, I would like to say thank you to my family and my good friends, who helped me become a better person and a better professional. I am very thankful to our excellent team of technical reviewers: Arup Nanda, Gokhan Atil, Dmitri Levin, Osama Mustafa, and Kenneth Roth for their great suggestions and a very helpful feedback. I am also very thankful to Maja Veselica (it was a pleasure writing this book with you), all the editors, and everyone involved in this book.
Maja Veselica, MSc in software engineering, is currently working for Parallel d.o.o., Belgrade, as an Oracle Database consultant (security, performance tuning, and so on). She has been working as an instructor for Oracle University since 2010. In the last couple of years, she has also been working for Oracle Consulting. Also, Maja is a member of Oracle ACE Program and has more than 20 Oracle certificates. She enjoys (beta) testing Oracle products and participating in other Oracle-related activities.
This is the first book I've written, and because of that, it will always be special to me. I would like to thank my entire family and friends for their patience and support. I am especially grateful to my parents, Mirko and Sanja Veselica, who informally reviewed most parts of the book, and to my uncle Dušan, aunt Zora, and my best friend Mirjana Marković for very creative suggestions.
I am very thankful to the technical reviewers: Arup Nanda, Gokhan Atil, Dmitri Levin, Osama Mustafa, and Kenneth Roth for spending their spare time reviewing this book and for providing us with very valuable feedback (corrections, suggestions, ideas, and opinions). Also, this book couldn't have been written without the Packt Publishing team - thank you all!
Zoran, I always enjoy working with you. Hopefully someday, we'll write another book together.
