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Tim Hall
DBA/Developer
Birmingham, UK

Tim Hall

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:
Speaking dates:

Date Location Organisation Description
Dec 2008 Stockholm, Sweden OUG Two papers:
Boost Performance with PL/SQL Programming Best Practices
11g New Features for PL/SQL Developers
Oct 2008 Rotorua, New Zealand NZOUG Two papers:
Boost Performance with PL/SQL Programming Best Practices
11g New Features for PL/SQL Developers
Oct 2008 Gold Coast, Australia AUSOUG Two papers:
Boost Performance with PL/SQL Programming Best Practices
11g New Features for PL/SQL Developers
Voted 2nd best speaker.
Oct 2008 Perth, Australia AUSOUG Two papers:
Boost Performance with PL/SQL Programming Best Practices
11g New Features for PL/SQL Developers
Sep 2008 San Francisco, USA Oracle OpenWorld Oracle ACE Director Birds-of-a-Feather Tips and Techniques Panel
Jul 2008 Birmingham, UK UKOUG DE SIG Caching for PL/SQL Performance
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:

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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