Oracle TIGHT / Oracle Database 12c PL/SQL Programming / Michael McLaughlin / 181243-1 / FM / iv
About the Author
Michael McLaughlin is a professor at BYU–Idaho in the Computer Information Technology
Department of the Business and Communication College. He is also the founder of McLaughlin
Software, LLC, and is active in the Utah Oracle User’s Group. He is the author of eight other
Oracle Press books, such as Oracle Database 11g & MySQL 5.6 Developer Handbook, Oracle
Database 11g PL/SQL Programming, and Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Workbook.
Michael has been writing PL/SQL since it was an add-on product for Oracle 6. He also writes
C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, and Python.
Michael worked at Oracle Corporation for over eight years in consulting, development, and
support. While at Oracle, he led the release engineering efforts for the direct path CRM upgrade
of Oracle Applications 11i (11.5.8 and 11.5.9) and led PL/SQL forward compatibility testing for
Oracle Applications 11i with Oracle Database 9i. He is the inventor of the ATOMS transaction
architecture (U.S. Patents #7,206,805 and #7,290,056). The patents are assigned to Oracle
Corporation.
Prior to his tenure at Oracle Corporation, Michael worked as an Oracle developer, systems and
business analyst, and DBA beginning with Oracle 6. His blog is at http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com.
Michael lives in eastern Idaho within a two-hour drive to Caribou-Targhee National Forest,
Grand Teton National Park, and Yellowstone National Park. He enjoys outdoor activities with his
wife and children (six of nine of whom still live at home).
About the Contributing Author
John Harper currently works for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a principal
database engineer. He greatly enjoys working with the data warehousing, business intelligence,
and database engineers there.
John’s mentors include Michael McLaughlin, Robert Freeman, Danette McGilvary, and many
others who have spent considerable time becoming the experts in their industry. He is both awed
and inspired by their abilities and feels lucky to be associated with them.
Recently, John has had the opportunity to work closely with some of the top-notch minds in
database security. He hopes to produce a series of publications focused on Oracle products such
as Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall, and Oracle Data Redaction.
John enjoys Japanese martial arts. During his teenage years and early adulthood, he took
jujitsu, karate, judo, and aikido. He loves aikido and hopes to teach it one day. He would also
love to learn kyudo if he can find any spare time.
John lives with his wife of over 23 years in Northern Utah County, Utah. They have one adopted
daughter, whom they cherish and thoroughly spoil. He has been working with databases for the
past 14 years, specializing in Oracle administration, database architecture, database programming,
database security, and information quality.
About the Technical Editor
Joseph McLaughlin is an iPhone and Ruby web developer at Deseret Book in Salt Lake City, Utah.
He has extensive backend database development experience with Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
His favorite development languages are Objective-C and Ruby.
Joseph is a recent graduate of BYU–Idaho with a degree in Computer Information Technology.
While a college student and independent consultant, Joseph designed, developed, and deployed
four mobile applications for the iPhone or iPod Touch.
Aside from programming, Joseph enjoys playing basketball and watching the Boston Red Sox
win, especially when they win the World Series.
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