About the Technical Reviewer

CAREL-JAN ENGEL is a member of the OakTable Network, lives in the Netherlands, and works as a freelancer. He has been working in IT since 1982, and he started to work with Oracle version 4 in 1985. Fastforms (Forms 1.3) didn't meet the requirements of the software project he was on, and he joined the team that was developing “better” programming tools and applications in C, based on the HLI, now known as the OCI. In 1992, he founded the Dutch software company Ease Automation, which he headed for almost ten years. Some of his projects during this time related to airports and had an important high-availability aspect to them, which inspired him to develop several techniques for standby databases, often pushing Oracle ...

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