Sam R. Alapati is an experienced Oracle DBA who holds the Oracle OCP DBA (11g) certification and the Hewlett-Packard UNIX System Administrator certification. He currently manages Oracle databases at the Boy Scouts of America’s national office in Irving, Texas. Previously, Sam worked for AMR Holdings (Sabre) and the Blanch Company in Dallas. Sam was a Senior Principal Consultant for Oracle Corporation in New York, in which capacity he worked at NBC and Lehman Brothers. In addition to being a professional Oracle database administrator, Sam has also taught Oracle DBA classes for many students. Sam taught college level courses at Kansas State University, University of Texas at Austin, and Rutgers University.
K. Gopalakrishnan, Oracle ACE is an award winning Author of Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics and Tuning by Oracle Press. He was honored as “Oracle Author of the Year” by Oracle Magazine in 2005. He also wrote Oracle Database 11g Real Application Clusters Handbook.
Sam R. Alapati, Oracle ACE is a Principal at Sabre Corporation in Southlake, Texas. Sam has managed Oracle databases for about 20 years, starting with Oracle Parallel Server in Oracle 7. Sam has published several Oracle related books, including Expert Oracle 11g Database Administration, Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Administration, and multiple Oracle OCP DBA certification guides for Oracle Press.