Ben Prusinski is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) and database architect with more than 14 years of experience with Oracle data warehouse and Oracle E-Business applications. As a corporate database consultant, Ben has provided services to dozens of Fortune 500 clients. He is an internationally recognized expert in Oracle high availability, performance tuning, database security, and ERP implementations. As a top Oracle expert, Ben received the prestigious Oracle ACE award in 2009 in recognition of his contributions to the Oracle community. As an Oracle RAC Certified Expert (OCE), Ben is also a popular speaker at major conferences such as Oracle OpenWorld, CLOUG in Latin America, IOUG, and Oracle Collaborate OAUG (Oracle Applications User Group). Ben also is a board member of the San Diego Oracle Applications User Group (SDOUAG) where he organizes events for southern California. Syed Jaffer Hussain is an Oracle Certified Master (10g), Oracle ACE, Oracle RAC Certified Expert and OCP v8i,9i and 10g DBA having over 17 years of Information Technology experience, which includes over 9 years as an Oracle DBA. Over the past 9 years, he has worked as an Oracle consultant with many international clients (mostly in the banking sector) and has been involved in several challenging projects such as implementing RAC, setting up Data Guard for all the business critical databases, tuning databases to increase the throughput and database migration/upgrade on various operating systems. Syed frequently participates in delivering Oracle University advanced 5 day courses and one day RMAN seminars on behalf of Oracle EMEA. He also shares his knowledge in several Oracle related forums and often updates his blog.