About the Technical Reviewers

Stéphane Faroult is a French consultant who first discovered relational databases and the SQL language 30 years ago. Stéphane joined Oracle France in its early days (after a brief spell with IBM and a period of time teaching at the University of Ottawa) and developed an interest in performance and tuning topics, on which he soon started writing training courses. After leaving Oracle in 1988, Stéphane briefly tried going straight and did a bit of operational research, but after only a year, he succumbed again to the allure of relational databases. For his sins, Stéphane has been performing database consultancy continuously ever since and founded RoughSea Ltd in 1998. In recent years, Stéphane has had a growing interest in education, which has taken various forms, including books (The Art of SQL, soon followed by Refactoring SQL Applications, both published by O’Reilly) and more recently a textbook (SQL Success, published by RoughSea), a series of seminars in Asia, and video tutorials (www.youtube.com/user/roughsealtd).

Arup Nanda has been an Oracle DBA for more than 18 years (and counting) working on all aspects of Oracle Database from modeling, performance tuning, backup, disaster recovery, security, and, more recently, Exadata. Currently he is the global database lead at a major multinational corporation near New York, managing, among other things, several Exadata installations. Arup has coauthored five books; published more than 500 articles in Oracle Magazine, OTN, and other publications; presented about 300 sessions at various Oracle technology conferences all over the world; and delivered 30 Oracle Celebrity Seminar series courses. He is an editor for SELECT Journal, the IOUG publication; a member of the board of directors of the Exadata SIG; an Oracle ACE director; and a member of the Oak Table Network. Acknowledging his professional expertise and involvement in the user community, Oracle awarded him the DBA of the Year title in 2003 and Architect of the Year in 2012.