About the Authors

Adrian Neagu has over 10 years of experience as a database administrator, mainly with DB2 and Oracle databases. He has been working with IBM DB2 since 2002.

He is an IBM DB2 Certified Administrator (versions 8.1.2 and 9), Oracle Database Administrator Certified Master 10g, Oracle Certified Professional (9i and 10g), and Sun Certified System Administrator Solaris 10. He is an expert in many areas of database administration, such as performance tuning, high availability, replication, and backup and recovery.

In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, taking photos, and catching big pikes with huge jerkbaits and bulldawgs.

Robert Pelletier is a Senior DBA Certified Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, and DB2. He has 12 years of experience as DBA, in production/development support, database installation and configuration, and tuning and troubleshooting. He has more than 30 years of IT experience in application development in mainframe central environments, client-server, and UNIX. More recently, he has added expertise in Oracle RAC 11gR2, 10gR2, 9i, DB2 UDB DBA, ORACLE 9iAS, Financials, PeopleSoft, and also SAP R/2 & R/3. He is renowned for his expertise among many major organizations worldwide and has a solid consulting background in well-known firms.