About the Technical Reviewers

Chris Beck has a degree in computer science from Rutgers University and has been working with multiple DBMS's for more than 20 years. He has spent the last 16 years as an Oracle employee where he is currently a Master Principal Technologist focusing on core database technologies. He is a co-inventor of two US Patents on software methodologies that were the basis for what is now known as Oracle Application Express. Chris has reviewed other Oracle books including Expert One-On-One (Peer Information Inc., 2001) and Expert Oracle Database Architecture (Apress, 2005), both by Tom Kyte and is himself the co-author of two books, Beginning Oracle Programming (Wrox Press, 2005) and Mastering Oracle PL/SQL (Apress, 2005). He resides in Northern Virginia with his wife Marta and four children; when not spending time with them, he can usually be found wasting time playing video games or watching Series A football.

Mike Gangler is a Database Specialist and Infrastructure Architect with over 30 years of data processing industry experience, primarily as a Database Technical Lead, Systems Analyst, and DBA on large corporate Information Systems projects. As a past President of the Detroit Oracle Users Group and Ann Arbor Oracle User groups, and charter member of the Board of Directors of the International Oracle Users Group, Mike has attained worldwide recognition as an accomplished and Certified Oracle DBA and relational database expert.

Toon Koppelaars is a long-time Oracle technology user, having used the Oracle database and tools software since 1987 (Oracle version 4). During this time, he has been involved in application development and database administration. He is an ACE Director (database development) and frequent speaker at Oracle-related events. He's also the declarer of “The Helsinki Declaration (IT version)” which describes a database-centric approach to modern application development. Together with Lex de Haan, Toon has co-authored Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals (Apress, 2007).