Freeman R. - Oracle Database 12c Oracle RMAN Backup & Recovery

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For Carrie and all my kids, whom I love more than life itself.

RF

Robert G. Freeman is the senior DBA at Businessolver, Inc., in Des Moines, Iowa. Robert has worked with Oracle databases for well over two decades, including working for Oracle Corporation for five years. In this long career Robert has worked in a number of different Oracle environments, from the mini to some of the largest in the world, and many in between. He loves working with Oracle databases and playing with his two-year old, Amy.

Matthew Hart is the coauthor of six books for Oracle Press, most recently Oracle 10g High Availability with RAC, Flashback, and DataGuard; Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Handbook; and the tome you now hold in your hands. He has worked with high availability technologies in Oracle since version 7.3, and has worked with RMAN since its inception. Matthew currently works and lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

Emre Baransel holds two masters degrees in information systems and business administration, and has worked in IT for 11 years. He has worked for the largest fixed-line, GSM telco companies and Oracle Corp. in Turkey. He was awarded as an Oracle ACE in 2012. He authored Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration: Beginners Guide and contributed to the Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery book. Hes an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), a founding member of TROUG (Turkish Oracle User Group), and a blogger at emrebaransel.blogspot.com. He has spoken at Oracle Open World in the United States and at user group conferences across Europe.

E. Craig Brown is a Senior Database Engineer for Commvault, specializing in Oracle database solutions. Mr. Brown has been a database administrator for 20 years, primarily with Oracle as well as others. His work with Commvault for the past eight years consists of consulting multiple companies across many industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, public utilities, engineering, and government, in planning for backup and disaster recovery.

Scott Black has over 15 years of experience in the technology field, with almost the past 5 years at Oracle helping public sector, healthcare, and higher education clients get the most value out of their data and Oracle products.

Tim Chien is a product manager with Oracles High Availability and Storage Management Group, focusing on Backup and Recovery, including Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, Recovery Manager (RMAN), and Flashback technologies. His extensive product management and marketing experience includes both application server and database products, and he has presented at numerous Oracle and industry conferences around the world. Tim received his bachelors and masters degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rao Chelli is a Senior Principal Consultant at Oracle USA. Rao has 15+ years of experience in technology consulting, solution architecture, and making customers successful with their Oracle product investments. He is one of the first-generation Oracle-engineered systems experts and Oracle MAA solutions delivery leaders at Oracle. Prior to Oracle, Rao worked at GE (USA), GOTEVOT (Saudi Arabia), and Frontier (India). Rao holds a masters degree (M.Sc.Tech) in Electronics Technology from Andhra University, India, and is currently enrolled as an Executive MBA student (A16) at New York Universitys Stern Business School.