Alapati - OCP Upgrade to Oracle Database 12c Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-060)

OCP Upgrade to Oracle Database 12c Exam Guide

(Exam 1Z0-060)

Sam R. Alapati

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To the memory of my beloved friend and guide, Jampala Chandrasekhar Prasad.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sam R. Alapati is a Senior Database Architect and Manager at Cash America International in Fort Worth, Texas. Earlier, Sam worked as an Oracle DBA and database architect at leading organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, AT&T, and Oracle Corporation. Sam has published 16 technical books in the database, middleware, and Java programming areas over the past several years, including the OCP Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide and the OCP Oracle Database 10g: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide.

About the Technical Editor

Bob Bryla is an Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, and 12c Certified Professional with more than 20 years of experience in database design, database application development, training, and Oracle database administration. He is the primary Oracle DBA and database systems engineer at Epic in Verona, Wisconsin.

Bob is a technical editor for a number of Oracle Press books, including several certification study guides for Oracle Database 10g, 11g, and 12c. He has also been known to watch science fiction movies and tinker with Android devices in his spare time.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

B efore I thank anyone else for helping me write and complete this book, I first wish to acknowledge the superb technical editing of the book by Bob Bryla, a well-known Oracle Press author of many years standing. Even with his busy schedule, Bob has kindly accepted the publishers request to help out with this book, and all of us owe him a big round of thanks for taking up whats usually a tedious and thankless job and working on it with unusual commitment and dedication. Bob, I learned a lot from you in the course of writing this book, from the Oracle database point of view as well as regarding the setting of rigorous standards in writing a technical book, and focusing hard on truly helping readers learn complex material.

I owe great thanks to Mary Demery, acquisitions coordinator at McGraw-Hill Education, who handled the book project from initiation to the very end with great cheer and efficiency. It was a real pleasure to work with you, Mary! Meghan Riley Manfre initiated the project a long time ago, and Im really grateful to Meghan for all her great support and help during the writing of the book, especially when we had to make several key decisions on the format and content of some of the material. Both Mary and Meghan, with their superb professionalism and empathetic support, made writing this book extremely enjoyable through the long months it took to get the job done!