Acknowledgments

Thanks to fellow coauthors Sam Alapati and Bill Padfield and also thanks to the numerous DBAs and developers who I’ve learned performance tuning techniques from over the years: Dave Jennings, Scott Schulze, Bob Suehrstedt, Pete Mullineaux, Janet Bacon, Sue Wagner, Mohan Koneru, Arup Nanda, Charles Kim, Bernard Lopuz, Barb Sannwald, Tim Gorman, Shawn Heisdorffer, Doug Davis, Sujit Pattanaik, Sudeep Pattanaik, Ken Roberts, Roger Murphy, Mehran Sowdaey, Kevin Bayer, Dan Fink, Guido Handley, Nehru Kaja, Tim Colbert, Glenn Balanoff, Bob Mason, Brad Blake, Cathy Wilson, Ravi Narayanaswamy, Abdul Ebadi, Kevin Hoyt, Trent Sherman, Sandra Montijo, Jim Secor, Maureen Frazzini, Sean Best, Stephan Haisley, Geoff Strebel, Patrick Gates, Buzzy Cheadle, Mark Blair, Karen Kappler, Mike Hutchinson, Liz Brill, Ennio Murroni, John Phillips, Mike O’Neill, Jack Donnelly, Beth Loker, Mike Eason, Greg Roberts, Debbie Earman, Bob Sell, Tom Wheltle, Chad Heckman, Ken Toney, Gabor Gyurovszky, Scott Norris, Joey Canlas, Eric Wendelin, Gary Smith, Mark Lutze, Kevin Quinlivan, Dean Price, Dave Bourque, Roy Backstrom, John Lilly, Valerie Eipper, Steve Buckmelter, John DiVirgilio, John Goggin, Simon Ip, Pascal Ledru, Kevin O’Grady, Peter Schow, Todd Sherman, Mike Tanaka, Doug Cushing, Will Thornburg, Steve Roughton, Sudha Verma, Christian Hessler, Tae Kim, Margaret Carson, Jed Summerton, Lea Wang, Ambereen Pasha, Dinesh Neelay, Kye Bae, Thom Chumley, Jeff Sherard, Erik Jasiak, Aaron Isom, Kristi Jackson, Karolyn Vowles, Britni Barovick, Amin Jiwani, Laurie Bourgeois, Vasanthan Dasan, Todd Wichers, Venkatesh Ranganathan, Dave Wood, Jeff Shoup, Brett Guy, and Jim Stark.

—Darl Kuhn

I’d like to thank Sam Alapati and Darl Kuhn for all of their help and support. Thanks to my managers over the years in helping me in my career. This includes but is not limited to Bob Ranney, Beth Bowen, Larry Wyzgala, John Zlamal, Billie Ortega, Linda Scheldrup, Amy Neff, and Maureen Frazzini. I’d like to thank my current DBA team, for their great support and friendship. This includes Dave Carter, Debbie Fitzgerald, Sandy Hass, Pankaj Guleria, Brent Wagner, Kevin Tomimatsu, and John Townley. Over the years, I’ve learned an awful lot from the following folks, who have always been generous with their time and help and have been patient with my questions. I have to thank the Oracle architect at our company, Roby Sherman, for all his support and help over the years. There are a myriad of developers, testers, system administrators, and other folks who have been a tremendous help in my career. This includes Mark Nold, Mick McMahon, Sandra Montijo, Jerry Sanderson, Glen Sanderson, Jose Fernandez, Mike Hammontre, Pat Cain, Dave Steep, Gary Whiting, Ron Fullmer, Becky Enter, John Weber, Tony Romo, Avanish Gupta, Scott Bunker, Paul Mayes, Bill Read, Rod Ermish, Rick Barry, Sun Yang, Sue Wagner, John Saxe, Glenn Balanoff, Linda Lee Burau, Deborah Lieou-McCall, Bob Zumpf, Pete Sardaczuk, Kristi Sargent, George Huner, Pad Kail, Curtis Gay, Ross Bartholomay, Carol Rosenow, Scott Richards, Sheryl Gross, Lachelle Shambe, John Piel, Rob Grote, Rex Ellis, Zane Warton, Steve Pearson, Kim Lake, Jim Barclay, Jason Hermstad, Shari Plantz-Masters, Denise Duncan, Bob Mason, Brad Blake, Mike Nims, Cathie Wilson, Rob Coates, Shirley Amend, Rob Bushlack, Cindy Patterson, Debbie Chartier, Blair Christensen, Meera Ganesan, Kedar Panda, Srivatsan Muralidaran, Tony Arlt, Atul Shirke, Deb Kingsley, Brenda Carney, Paul Obering, Don Miller, Ned Ashby, Pat Wuller, and Adric Norris.

—Bill Padfield