About the authors
Edward Honour has worked with Oracle products since 1989 and has participated in the design and development of several large-scale client/server applications for a variety of industries. Edward is the author of Oracle How-To, the previous edition of this book.
Paul Dalberth specializes in the discriminating application of technology to problems confronting a variety of industries particularly those in the pharmaceutical and financial sectors. His ten years of information technology experience include database administration, database design, and applications development. He currently serves as Associate Director of Database Administration and Clinical Data Management at Family Health International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He can be reached via email at pdalberth@fhi.org.
Ari Kaplan is an independent computer consultant specializing in Oracle product design, development and management. He currently serves as the lead Oracle database consultant for 3Com, the world’s largest modem company. Prior to becoming a consultant in 1994, Ari worked for Oracle Corporation. As a lifelong baseball enthusiast, Ari has turned his passion into a year-round endeavor. Since 1992, he has worked as a consultant for the Montreal Expos baseball club, where he has developed and managed their scouting department’s software systems. Ari has appeared on NBC’s Today Show and CNN and is a frequent guest speaker on Oracle in the United States and abroad. He lives in Chicago and can be reached through email at akaplan@interaccess.com or through his Web site of Oracle tips at http://homepage.interaccess.com/~akaplan.
Atul Mehta is a software engineer with a forte in database design. A savvy PL/SQL developer, he is also proficient in a wide variety of programming languages like C, JavaScript, Java, Perl, and Informix 4GL. Atul is a senior software consultant with Sesame Software, a leading technical consulting firm, specializing in Intranet application development using Oracle WebServer. He is currently helping Keystone Communications in creating an order entry system to schedule their daily broadcast business for domestic and international services, and manage cost containment analysis as well as revenue generation. In the past, other clients included MCI, MBNA, OfficeMax, Frontier Technologies Corporation, and NEC.