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Tim Hall
DBA/Developer
Birmingham, UK

Tim Hall   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

Oracle Job Scheduling - Creating robust task management with dbms_job and Oracle 10g dbms_scheduler
Oracle Job Scheduling
(read reviews) 		Oracle PL/SQL Tuning - Expert Secrets for High Performance Programming
Oracle PL/SQL Tuning
(read reviews)

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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OCP 10gOCP 11gOCP Oracle ACE

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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