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Tim HallDBA/Developer
Birmingham, UK
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Quotes: "The harder I work, the luckier I get." Samuel Goldwyn "If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy." Miss Tick (The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett) "There’s a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live." Granny Weatherwax (Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett) |
Tim Hall is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) DBA (7, 8, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g), Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) PL/SQL Developer, Oracle ACE Director and was chosen as Oracle ACE of the Year 2006 by Oracle Magazine Editors Choice Awards. He has been involved in DBA, design and development work with Oracle databases since 1994.
He has gained a wide knowledge of the Oracle software stack and has worked as a consultant for several multi-national companies on projects ranging from real-time control systems to OLTP web applications. Since 2000 he has published over 300 articles on his website (www.oracle-base.com) covering a wide range of Oracle features.
Publications
- 400+ articles (ORACLE-BASE.com) 2000 - Present
- Oracle PL/SQL Tuning (Rampant TechPress) 2006
- Using PL/SQL Arrays for Lookup Tables (IOUG SELECT Journal) 2005
- Oracle Job Scheduling (Rampant TechPress) 2005
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Conferences and Teaching Dates
| Date | Location | Organisation | Description |
| May 2010 | Croatia | Oracle University | Oracle PL/SQL Tuning - 2 Day Seminar |
| March 2010 | Rotorua, New Zealand | NZOUG | Conference |
| Dec 2009 | Birningham, UK | UKOUG | Conference |
| Nov 2009 | Melbourne, Australia | AUSOUG | Conference |
| Nov 2009 | Canberra, Australia | ACTOUG | User Group - Special Interest Group |
| Nov 2009 | Perth, Australia | AUSOUG | Conference |
| Oct 2009 | San Francisco, USA | Oracle OpenWorld | Conference |
| Sep 2009 | Utrecht, Netherlands | Miracle Benelux | Oracle PL/SQL Tuning - 2 Day Seminar |
| June 2009 | Monterey, USA | ODTUG | Conference |
| May 2009 | Helsinki, Finland | OUGF | Conference |
| May 2009 | Stockholm, Sweden | ORCAN | Conference |
| May 2009 | Bratislava, Slovakia | Oracle University | Oracle PL/SQL Tuning - 2 Day Seminar |
| April 2009 | Pomporova, Bulgaria | BGOUG | Conference |
| April 2009 | Santiago, Chile | CLOUG | Conference |
| Dec 2008 | Stockholm, Sweden | OUG | Conference |
| Oct 2008 | Rotorua, New Zealand | NZOUG | Conference |
| Oct 2008 | Gold Coast, Australia | AUSOUG | Conference |
| Oct 2008 | Perth, Australia | AUSOUG | Conference |
| Sep 2008 | San Francisco, USA | Oracle OpenWorld | Conference |
| Jul 2008 | Birmingham, UK | UKOUG DE SIG | Conference |
| Jun 2008 | Tallinn, Estonia | Oracle University | Oracle PL/SQL Tuning - 2 Day Seminar |
| Mar 2008 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Oracle University | Oracle PL/SQL Tuning - 2 Day Seminar |
| Feb 2008 | Vienna, Austria | Oracle University | Oracle PL/SQL Tuning - 2 Day Seminar |
| Nov 2007 | San Francisco, USA | Oracle OpenWorld | Conference |
| Oct 2007 | London, UK | UKOUG DE SIG | User Group - Special Interest Group |
| Jan 2007 | London, UK | UKOUG DE SIG | User Group - Special Interest Group |
| Oct 2006 | San Francisco, USA | Oracle OpenWorld | Conference |
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My Sites and Profiles
- My Website
- My Blog
- My Blog Aggregator
- My Oracle Mix Profile
- My Oracle Wiki Profile
- My LinkedIn Profile
- My Plaxo
- My Twitter (@oraclebase)
- My Pownse
- My Jaiku
- My identi.ca
- My FriendFeed
- My OracleCommunity.net Profile
- My Knol
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ORACLE-BASE History
ORACLE-BASE started life as a collection of SQL scripts that I used regularly in several companies. Rather than take them between jobs on disks, I put them on a website so I would always have access to them.Later I started to write how-to documents for new Oracle features and revision notes I used to prepare for OCP exams. Over the years the site has grown in size and popularity...
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