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By ACEs, For ACEs December 2010

Oracle ACE Spotlight Steven Feuerstein , Oracle ACE Director Steven Feuerstein Steven Feuerstein is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, having written ten books on PL/SQL, including Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices (all published by O'Reilly Media).

Steven has been developing software since 1980, spent five years with Oracle (1987-1992), and has served as PL/SQL Evangelist for Quest Software since January 2001. He is an Oracle ACE Director and writes regularly for Oracle Magazine, which named him the PL/SQL Developer of the Year in both 2002 and 2006. He is also the first recipient of ODTUG's Lifetime Achievement Award (2009).

In 2010, Steven started the PL/SQL Challenge, an online PL/SQL quiz that has over 1300 daily players, and will launch the PL/SQL Channel, an Internet-based video training series, in 2011. Steven's online PL/SQL cyberhome is located at www.ToadWorld.com/SF; but you can also find out more about Steven at http://www.StevenFeuerstein.com.

Steven lives in Chicago with his wife, Veva. His older son Chris is a visual artist ( www.chrissilva.com). His younger son, Eli, is a musician who has lately taken up the craft of APEX programming (you can see his handiwork at the PL/SQL Challenge website). In Steven's spare time, he has no spare time, so he just writes more quizzes for the PL/SQL Challenge.

Oracle ACE Program News

Oracle ACE Quick Links Happy New Year! Be safe.

Welcome New Oracle ACEs

Initiated December 2010

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Blog Post : Risks with JavaEE

ACE Director Markus Eisele shares his view on possible risks when using Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3.0.1. He also discusses how to design startup classes with Glassfish and WebLogic

Blog Post : DVM and Pre-Built VM for SOA Suite Subscribe to Oracle newsletters Two interesting blog posts by Oracle ACE Eric Elzinga: Oracle Service Bus Using External Domain Value Mappings (DVM) Extend Pre-Built Virtual Machine For SOA Suite With Oracle Service Bus

Blog Post : MySQL 5.5.8 from source What Are You Doing? On MySQL 5.5, we use CMake to build the source. Oracle ACE Surachart Have you published an article? Are Opun shares results in his blog when upgrading from MySQL 5.5.7-rc to you speaking somewhere? Promote MySQL 5.5.8 from Source. yourself here! Submit newsletter item New Article: MySQL Performance Diagnostics & Tuning - Part II

Oracle ACE Ricardo Portilho Proni demonstrates the second part of his guide on how to improve the performance on reads using MySQL Databases.

New Book: Pro Oracle SQL (Apress), written by Oracle ACE Karen Morton together with colleagues Kerry Osborne, Robyn Sands, Oracle ACE Comments? Suggestions? Contact [email protected] Riyaj Shamsudeen, and Oracle ACE Jared Still. (Available Now)

New Book: Super Charge Your Data Warehouse: Invaluable Data Modeling Rules to Implement Your Data Vault, written by Dan Linstedt and co-edited by Oracle ACE, Kent Graziano. (Available Jan 15, 2011 - Download the first chapter for free and get notification when it is published.)

New Book: Introduction to SQL Server: Basic Skills for Any SQL Server User, written by Oracle ACE Bert Scalzo (coming soon, Jan 2011) > Back to the top

Oracle ACE Out and About

Speaking at Oracle 11g RACaThon Online 4-week Webinar Series (Jan 2011) Syed Jaffar Hussain - Oracle ACE, DB Bert Scalzo, Oracle ACE, DB Jeremy Schneider - Oracle ACE, DB Tariq Farooq - Oracle ACE, DB

Gustavo Gonzalez - Oracle ACE, Apps Speaking at Oracle E-Business Suite Reporting Test Webcast

Sandra Vucinic - Oracle ACE, DB Speaking at Norcal OAUG (Jan 2011)

Cary Millsap - ACE Director, DB Speaking at NoCOUG (Feb 2011)

Steven Feuerstein - ACE Director, DB Speaking at 3-day Oracle Virtual Celebrity Seminar Series (Feb 2011)

Christian Trieb - Oracle ACE, DB Speaking/Organizing DOAG SIG (Feb 2011)

Speaking at RMOUG (Feb 2011) Cary Millsap - ACE Director, DB Brad Brown - ACE Director, OFM Tim Gorman - Oracle ACE, DB Dan Hotka - ACE Director, DB Dan Morgan - ACE Director, DB Mike Ault - Oracle ACE, DB Piet de Visser - Oracle ACE, DB Iggy Fernandez - Oracle ACE, DB Alex Gorbachev - ACE Director, DB Jerry Ireland - Oracle ACE, DB John King - Oracle ACE, DB Christo Kutrovsky - Oracle ACE, DB Debra Lilley - ACE Director, Apps Joze Senegacnik - ACE Director, DB Riyaj Shamsudeen - Oracle ACE, DB Gwen Shapira - Oracle ACE, DB John Stouffer - Oracle ACE, Apps Peter Koletzke - ACE Director, OFM Jordan Braunstein - Oracle ACE, OFM

Learco Brizzi - Oracle ACE, DB Speaking/Organizing OGh APEX Day (Mar 2011)

Speaking at Hotsos Symposium (Mar 2011) Cary Millsap - ACE Director, DB Tim Gorman - Oracle ACE, DB Karl Arao - Oracle ACE, DB Riyaj Shamsudeen - Oracle ACE, DB Gwen Shapira - Oracle ACE, DB Alex Gorbachev - ACE Director, DB Tim Gorman - Oracle ACE, DB Doug Burns - ACE Director, DB Tanel Poder - ACE Director, DB Toon Koppelaars - ACE Director, DB Mark Farnham - Oracle ACE, DB

Steve Romeo - ACE Director, Apps Speaking at ComputerWorld IT Leaders Conference (Mar 2011)

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Upcoming Events

Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day February 1, 2011 | Online RMOUG February 15-17, 2011 | Denver, CO NoCOUG February 24, 2011 | San Francisco, CA Hotsos Symposium March 7-9, 2011 | Dallas, TX

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