Thursday, August 14, 2008, between 5:00 and 8:00 PM

at Premier Inc. (2320 Cascade Pointe Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28208)

Following a 6 year Navy enlistment in the Nuclear Navy riding submarines, Mike began working with computers in 1980 programming in Basic and Fortran IV on the PDP-11 architecture in the nuclear industry. During Mike’s nuclear years he worked with PDP, IBM-PC, Osborne and later VAX-VMS and HP architectures and with the Informix and Ingres databases. Following the downturn in the nuclear industry Mike began working with Oracle as the only DBA at the Iuka, Mississippi based Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (ASRM) project for NASA in 1990. Since 1990 Mike has worked with a variety of industries both as in house and consulting talent. Mike is currently the Oracle Domain Specialist for Quest Software.
Mike has published nearly two-dozen Oracle related books including the 7.0, 8.0, 8i and 9i versions of his Oracle Administration and Management title with Wiley, the Oracle8 Black Book and Oracle DBA OCP ExamCram series (for versions 8 and 8i) with Coriolis and multiple titles including Oracle9i RAC  and Oracle10g Grid and RAC  with Rampant Technical Press. Mike has written articles for Oracle, Select, DBMS, Oracle Internals and several other database related magazines. Mike is also a frequently high-rated presenter at local, regional and international Oracle conferences such as GOUSERS, SEOUG, RMOUG, NYOUG, NCOUG, IOUG, OOW, ODTUG, UKOUG and EOUG.