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Tim HallDBA/Developer
Birmingham, UK

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:
- 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
| 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:
- 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 OracleComunity.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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