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Tim Hall

DBA, Developer, Author, Trainer
Birmingham, UK

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) "If there's one thing I've learnt about experts, they're experts on f*ck all!" Jake Green (Revolver, Guy Richie)

Tim Hall is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) DBA/Developer, Oracle ACE Director, Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, OakTable Network member 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 1995.

Although focusing on database administration and PL/SQL development, 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 Tim has published over 1,000 articles on his website (oracle-base.com) covering a wide range of Oracle features.

In his spare time Tim enjoys watching movies, reading and takes part in a number of activities including Yoga and going to the gym.

Certifications and Awards

• Oracle ACE Director
• Oracle Code One Star - Oracle Code One 2018
• UKOUG Lifetime Achievement Award 2018
• Best UK Speaker Award - UKOUG Tech 2014, 2017
• Oracle ACE of the Year 2006 by Oracle Magazine Editors Choice Awards.
• OakTable Network Member
• Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud 2019 Specialist
• Oracle Database Administrator Certified Professional (OCP) (7, 8, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c)
• Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Certified Professional (OCP)
• Oracle Database: SQL Certified Expert
• Former Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador. Now merged with the Oracle ACE program.
• Former Oracle Developer Champion. Now merged with the Oracle ACE program.

Publications

• 1000+ articles (oracle-base.com) 2000 - Present
• Public Speaking (UKOUG Oracle Scene Magazine) 2013
• Oracle PL/SQL Tuning (Rampant TechPress) 2006
• Using PL/SQL Arrays for Lookup Tables (IOUG SELECT Journal) 2005
• Oracle Job Scheduling (Rampant TechPress) 2005

Oracle Job Scheduling (2005) (read reviews)

Oracle PL/SQL Tuning (2006) (read reviews)

Conferences and Teaching Dates

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My Sites and Profiles

• Website
• Blog
• Blog Aggregator
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Twitter (@oraclebase)

Contact ORACLE-BASE.com

I'm one guy with a full time job, and I do this website in my spare time. As you can imagine, that doesn't leave much time to answer questions for people. I had to close the forum on this site because I spent so long answering questions I had no time to produce new content. Please keep this is mind when trying to contact me by email.

With all that in mind, my email address is "tim(@)oracle-base.com".

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...

I have a real job too. The website is not a business, just something I do for fun.

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