About the Author

Marcelle Kratochvil is an accomplished Oracle Database administrator and developer. She is CTO of Piction and has designed and developed industry-leading software for the management and selling of digital assets. She has also developed an award-winning shipping and freight management system, designed and built a booking system, a digital asset management system, a sport management system, an e-commerce system, a social network engine, a reporting engine, and numerous search engines. She has been an Oracle beta tester since the original introduction of Oracle Multimedia. She is also a well known presenter at Oracle Conferences and has produced numerous technical podcasts. In 2004 she was the Oracle PL/SQL Developer of the year. Born in Australia, she lives in Canberra. She is actively working as a database administrator supporting a large number of customer sites internationally. She is also campaigning with Oracle to promote the use of storing all data and any data in a database. In her spare time she plays field hockey and does core research in artificial intelligence in database systems. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Australian National University and majored in computing and mathematics.