David Austin has been in the data-processing profession for almost 25 years and an Oracle DBA for 11 years. For the past six years, David has worked for Oracle Corporation, where he's now employed as a senior principal curriculum developer. He has completed multiple masters' programs with Oracle Education and is a Certified Oracle8i Database Administrator.
Megh Thakkar currently works as a senior software engineer at Quest Software. Prior to this, he worked at Oracle Corporation as a technical specialist. Megh has several industry vendor certifications including OCP, MCSE, Novell Certified ECNE, SCO UNIX ACE, and Lotus Certified Notes Consultant. He is a regular presenter at Oracle OpenWorld and various international Oracle user groups. Megh is a renowned Oracle specialist and has performed Oracle development, consulting, support, and DBA functions all over the world during the past nine years.