2015

Oracle Database Developer Choice Award Finalists

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A celebraCon of Oracle Database

ApplicaCon Development Technologies
featuring Andy Mendelsohn
and the announcement of the
Oracle Database Developer Choice Award Winners
TWEET AWAY! #yessql #odevchoice #otn

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Andy Mendelsohn
ExecuCve Vice President, Database Server Technologies
Three decades at Oracle CorporaCon, twelve years
managing Oracle Database
Wrote Oracle B-tree indexing code sCll used today
Co-designer of Oracle's PLSQL stored procedure
language
Worked on SQL query engine

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The Oracle Database Developer Choice Awards

Joint project of OTN and Database Server Technologies

Special thanks to Laura Ramsey and Todd Trichler

Recognizing technical excellence and commitment to community

Finalists in ve categories chosen by ACE judges from open nominaYons
Three winners chosen by users in popular vote over 4400 votes cast!
Hold applause - tweet away! @OracleDatabase #yessql #odevchoice #otn

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The 2015 Database Design Devvys

Many thanks to our judges!
Alex Gorbachev, Bert Scalzo, John Jeunece, Kent Graziano, Je Smith (Oracle)

CongratulaYons to all the nalists!

Rob Lockard

Heli Helskyaho

Michelle Kolbe
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Winner, 2015 DB Design Devvy: Michelle Kolbe

Lives in Utah, United States
Oracle ACE
Promotes data modeling and design in a Business
Intelligence context
AcYve in Utah Oracle User Group, IOUG, Women in
Technology programs

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Winner, 2015 DB Design Devvy: Rob Lockard

Lives in [LOCATION CLASSIFIED]
Oracle ACE
Brings importance of database design to Financial
Intelligence and other security-related
AcYvely shares his experYse with the community via
ODTUG Kscope conferences, blogs and webcasts

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Winner, 2015 DB Design Devvy: Heli Helskyaho

Lives in Finland
Oracle ACE Director
CEO of Miracle Finland
Author of SQL Developer Data Modeler for Database
Design Mastery
AcYve in Oracle User Groups and with the community,
via her blog, acYve Twicer feed, and frequent
conference presentaYons
Mentor for Women in Technology programs
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The 2015 Oracle REST Data Services Devvys

Many thanks to our judges!
ChrisYan Rokica, Gwen Shapira, John Scoc, MarYn D'Souza,
Kris Rice (Oracle)

CongratulaYons to all the nalists!

Tim St. Hilaire

Dimitri Gielis

Morten Braten

Anton Nielsen

Dietmar Aust

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Kiran Pawar
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Winner, 2015 ORDS Devvy: Dietmar Aust

Lives in Germany
Oracle ACE
Deeply experienced APEX developer
who has focused on opYmizing
infrastructure to support APEX apps.
Published a step-by-step guide to
conguring ORDS with the Apache
hcp server.

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Winner, 2015 ORDS Devvy: Morten Braten

Lives in Norway
Published a popular blog series on using
ORDS with APEX.
AcYvely encouraging and supporYng the
community through a wide range of
open source projects.

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Winner, 2015 ORDS Devvy: Dimitri Gielis

Lives in Brussels
Oracle ACE Director
Popular, widely respected APEX expert
Dove into ORDS with a passion, as soon as it was
available.
Immediately started blogging and presenYng on
conferences.
Made it easier for users to get started and leverage this
new technology.

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The 2015 SQL Devvys

Many thanks to our judges!
Chet JusYce, Galo Balda, Monty LaYolais,
Rick Vay Dyke, Chris Saxon (Oracle)

Emrah Mete
Sayan Malakshinov

CongratulaYons to all the nalists!

JusYn Cave

Kim Berg Hansen

Stew Ashton

Erik Van Roon

Machias Rogel
Sean Stuber

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Winner, 2015 SQL Devvy: Emrah Mete

Lives in Istanbul, Turkey
AcYve and highly respected member of the Turkish
Oracle User Group
Publishes in both English and Turkish

Deep experYse on database opYmizaYon and tuning

of SQL statements
Highest vote total of all nalists across all categories

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Winner, 2015 SQL Devvy: Sayan Malakshinov

First of ian
ll, RI ussia
want to thank Oracle Corp for providing such an elaborate and complex database,
Lives

because it's very interesCng to learn something new every day. I also want to thank Oracle for
Oracle
ACE
Associate
supporCng
programs
like The Database Developer Choice Award and The ACE program. It's great
that people who altruisCcally share their knowledge are recognized by Oracle.
In
2013, awarded "Best in IT" in company

Secondly, DI'd
like to thank
the Oracle community,
because their blogs, forums, and books are a
Oracle
atabase
performance
specialist
essenCal source of knowledge now.

Sayan
uncovered two criYcal vulnerabiliYes in Oracle Database
Of course, I also want to thank all Devvy voters, no ma\er who you voted for. Thank you for
Two-Yme
L/SQL
Championship
layer I think it is a real contribuCon to
stopping for aP
m
oment tC
o hallenge
take the Cme
to cast your vote, bpecause
the development of the Oracle community. Every vote, every bit of feedback, every comment or
like on helpful blog posts, or forum topics are very pleasant moments that moCvate us to write
and answer more oOen and liOs our spirits.

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Winner, 2015 SQL Devvy: Sean Stuber

Lives in Ohio, United States
Strong advocate of Tom Kyte's mantra, on
the job and in the community
A dedicated (obsessive? J) contributor on
ExpertsExchange
Over 7,000 quesYons answered!

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The 2015 ApplicaYon Express Devvys

Many thanks to our judges!
Doug Gault, Peter Raganitsch, Roel Hartman,
Scoc Wesley, David Peake (Oracle)

Jari Laine

CongratulaYons to all the nalists!

Jrgen Schuster

Kiran Pawar

Paul MacMillan
Morten Braten
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Karen Cannell

Trent Schafer

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Winner, 2015 APEX Devvy: Jrgen Schuster

Lives in Germany
#1 booster of APEX worldwide
'pks sYckers
APEX Talkshow podcast
Brand-new apex.world community site

Oh, and he's also precy good at building

applicaYons with APEX

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Winner, 2015 APEX Devvy: Morten Braten

Lives in Norway
Created the Alexandria PL/SQL Library, Thoth
Gateway, two popular APEX plug-ins and a
generator for APEX applicaYons...
"A good idea and a fun exercise"

A busy community contributor with a passion

for Oracle Database appdev technologies

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Winner, 2015 APEX Devvy: Kiran Pawar

Lives in India
AcYve and popular contributor on the
OTN APEX forum
A Legend!

Early and enthusiasYc explorer of

using ORDS with APEX

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The 2015 PL/SQL Devvys

Many thanks to our judges!
Gurcan Orhan, Marcelle Kratochvil,
Mike Riley, Steven Feuerstein (Oracle)

Kim Berg Hansen

CongratulaYons to all the nalists!

Patrick Barel

Roger Stoller
Bill Coulam

Sean Stuber

Morten Braten

Adrian Billington

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Winner, 2015 PL/SQL Devvy: Roger Troller

Lives in Switzerland
Authored and shared with the
community Trivadis SQL and PL/
SQL Coding Guidelines
AcYvely promotes use of standards
and
library-based development
Popular trainer and presenter for
Trivadis

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Winner, 2015 PL/SQL Devvy: Adrian Billington

I'm honoured to receive this award and to be recognised by the Oracle Community in this way.

inconceivable
IT" in 2015 without the wealth of knowledge and
It's
Lives
in the to Uimagine
nited "doing
Kingdom
experience provided by online community volunteers, through forums, blogs, websites,
magazines,
Oracle bAooks
CE or YouTube videos. I've learned so much from so many high quality Oracle
experts over the years, many of whom spend a great deal of their personal Cme to share their
with tohe
thers
nd I think it's aimportant
to try to oer psopular
omething back.
experCse
Created
aawesome
nd awesomely

oracle-developer.net
website
I'm
also very happy to be recognised
in the PL/SQL category. I spend a lot of Cme solving
with SQL, but I can't imagine building database applicaCons without PL/SQL packages.
problems
Contributed
to Steven Feuerstein's Oracle
PL/SQL integrates seamlessly with SQL and provides all of the language constructs and uCliCes
PL/SQL
rogramming
book database applicaCons.
required
by dP
evelopers
to build high-quality

The oracle-developer.net website serves two purposes for me. First, it is a creaCve outlet for
me to record and share my experiences of new database features or cool techniques
(parCcularly for PL/SQL). Second, it is a way for me to oer something back to the online
community, through my arCcles and uCliCes, but also in other ways, such as keeping the site
completely ad-free and enabling all my code to be downloaded.

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Winner, 2015 PL/SQL Devvy: Patrick Barel

Lives in Almere, Netherlands
Oracle ACE
Working with PL/SQL since 1999
AcYve presenter, blogger, contributor to
community uYlity projects

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Winner, 2015 PL/SQL Devvy: Sean Stuber

Lives in Ohio, United States
Strong advocate of Tom Kyte's mantra, on the
job and in the community
A dedicated (obsessive? J) contributor on
ExpertsExchange
Over 7,000 quesYons answered!

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YesSQL! Technology and Community

Oracle Database is the most powerful, advanced RDBMS in the world.
Oracle SQL and PL/SQL provide the best foundaYon for the development of
secure, fast and maintainable applicaYons.
But great technology is only part of the soluYon.
In the 21st century, we also need an engaged, vibrant community, lled
with experts eager to share and teach.
The Developer Choice Awards is just one of many iniYaYves you will see
from Oracle CorporaYon to both recognize and support that community.

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Take Advantage of Our Growing Set

of Community Resources!
Revitalized AskTom
LiveSQL
OTN
Oracle Learning Library
YouTube Channels
Oracle Help Center
PL/SQL Challenge

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