Three Rampant TechPress authors are featured in the January 2005 issue of Oracle Magazine, the premier Oracle magazine with a circulation of over 800,000 copies. 

• Kimberly Floss – President of the International Oracle Users Group and author of Oracle SQL Tuning & CBO Internals, Floss is featured in an article titled “Inside Optimization”.
   
• Arup Nanda – Oracle DBA of the Year and author of Oracle Privacy Security Auditing has an article titled “Encrypt your Data Assets”
   
• Dr Arun Kumar - Author of “Easy Oracle Automation” by Rampant TechPress was interviewed in the peer-to-peer section In this interview Dr. Kumar praises his Rampant TechPress book for its technology and content:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/05-jan/o15peer.html

Dr. Arun Kumar

What is your role at Cingular Wireless?

My group, Enterprise Data Architecture Services, provides the framework for architecting, designing, and tuning databases and database applications used by Cingular for everything from subscriber activation, billing, and customer service to online and retail sales.

You've just published a new book. What topics does it cover?

My book, entitled Easy Oracle 10g Automatic DBA [from Rampant TechPress, 2004], explains how to use the powerful Oracle Database 10g automatic database-administration features.

It's written in a very lucid style, helping small businesses as well as novice DBAs fully utilize these features and have a complete ready-to-use Oracle database in less than a day.

What additional advice do you have for those just getting into Web and database development?

Web-hosting services and authoring tools have become very simple and cheap, so everyone can afford to make database applications and Web sites. The utility of any Web-based application depends on the data underlying it and its presentation to the user. Once you're familiar with database fundamentals and Web-development techniques, there are no limits on how to use a Web application with integrated database technology.