BERNARD LOPUZ is a senior principal technical support analyst at Oracle Corp., and he is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP). Before he became an Oracle DBA, he was a programmer developing Unisys Linc and Oracle applications, as well as interactive voice response (IVR) applications such as telephone banking voice-processing applications. Bernard was coauthor of the Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs (Apress, 2008) and technical reviewer of three other books, namely, Oracle RMAN Recipes (Apress, 2007), Pro Oracle Database 11g Administration (Apress, 2010), and Pro Oracle SQL (Apress, 2010). He has a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Mapúa Institute of Technology in Manila, Philippines. Bernard was born in Iligan, Philippines, and now resides in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife, Leizle, and daughters, Juliet and Carol. Aside from tinkering with computers, Bernard is a soccer and basketball fanatic.