Charles Kim is the Practice Manager of database technologies at Viskosity Technologies, Inc. Charles is the author of the 107+ page Maximum Availability Architecure case study at Oracle’s Web site, and is an Oracle Certified DBA, Redhat Certified Technician, and Microsoft Certified Professional. He has over 17 years of IT experience and has worked with Oracle since 1991. Charles is the author of the Oracle Database 11g New Features for DBAs and Developers book and a technical editor for Oracle Press. Charles has presented advanced topics for IOUG and Oracle OpenWorld on such topics as RAC/ASM and 7×24 High Availability Considerations using Oracle Advanced Replication, Hot Standby and Quest Shareplex.

Certifications

Oracle

Oracle Certified Professional 8i, 9i Database Administration

Microsoft

Microsoft Certified Professional – SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition

Redhat

Redhat Certified Technician – Redhat 4
 
 
 

White Papers, Presentations, and Publications

October 2009 Oracle Open World presentation – Top 5 Essential Oracle ASM 11g Release 2 New Features for DBAs, Architects and System Administrators
August 2009 Data Guard presentation at the Dallas Oracle User Group on August 2009
Author 2009 Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook by Oracle Press published on July 2009
Author 2008 Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs by APress published on November 2008

Author 2007

Oracle Database 11g New Features for DBAs and Developers book by APress published on November 2007

Technical Editor 2007

Oracle Automated Storage Management book by Oracle Press

Oracle OpenWorld 2007

Expert Panel Session on Oracle Database 11g New Features Best Practices by IOUG Beta Testers

Customer Reference Forum (May 2007)

Presents a customer reference conference call on RAC, ASM and Data Guard … Listen to the complete presentation with  Q & A

Oracle OpenWorld 2006

Maximum Availability Architecture Case Study with RAC, ASM, and Data Guard for Fidelity National Financials on Oracle’s website:

In-Depth Case Study on RAC, ASM and Data Guard at OOW

IOUG University Masters Class Instructor 2001

iDBA 9i Application Servers classes

IOUG 2001

High Availability 7X24 Design Considerations using Oracle Hot Standby, SharePlex and Oracle Advanced Replication, paper #164

Dallas Oracle User Group, South Central Oracle User Group 1995

Achieve 90%+ Generation Using Designer 2000 CASE