Adrian Neagu has over ten years experience as a database administrator, mainly with DB2 and Oracle databases. He started working with IBM DB2 in 2002. He is an IBM DB2 Certified Administrator version 8.1.2 and 9, Oracle Database Administrator Certified Master 10g, Oracle Database Administrator Certified Professional 9i, 10g and Sun Certified System Administrator Solaris 10. He is an expert in many areas of database administration such as performance tuning, high availability solutions, replication, backup and recovery. In his spare time he enjoys to cook, take photos and catch big pikes with huge jerkbaits and bulldawgs. Robert Pelletier is a Senior DBA Certified Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, and DB2. He has twelve years experience as a DBA, as production/development support, database installation and configuration, tuning and troubleshooting. He has more than thirty years IT experience in many applications in development in 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 and R/3. His expertise has been recognized by many major organizations worldwide, and he has a solid consulting background in well-known firms.