Kevin Loney (Wilmington, DE) is a veteran Oracle developer and DBA. He is the author of the best-selling Oracle8i DBA Handbook, and co-author of Oracle8: The Complete Reference, Oracle8 Advanced Tuning and Administration, and Oracle SQL & PL/SQL Annotated Archives. He frequently makes presentations at Oracle conferences and contributes to Oracle Magazine. George Koch is a leading authority on relational database applications. A popular speaker and widely published author, he is also the creator of THESIS, the securities trading, accounting, and porfolio management system that was the first major commercial applications product in the world to employ a relational database (ORACLE) and provide English language querying to its users. He is a former senior vice president of Oracle Corporation.