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Tim Hall
DBA/Developer
Birmingham, UK

Tim Hall is an Oracle Certified Professional DBA (7, 8, 8i, 9i, 10g), 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 graduating from university in 1994 with a PhD in Molecular Genetics.

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:

300+ 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

Speaking dates:

Date	Location	Organisation	Description
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	The Oracle DBA… A dying Breed? - Unconference session
Oct 2007	London, UK	UKOUG DE SIG	PHP & Oracle (Getting Started)
Jan 2007	London, UK	UKOUG DE SIG	PL/SQL Tuning

Oct 2006	San Francisco, USA	Oracle OpenWorld	Speeding up PL/SQL - 3 Presentations on trade stands
Oct 2006	San Francisco, USA	Oracle OpenWorld	Part of an "Ask The Experts" panel

My sites and profiles:

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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