Ron Hardman

Ron Hardman, OCP, is a Consulting Technical Specialist with Oracle Worldwide Technical Support. Prior to joining Oracle Corporation, he was an Oracle database developer and consultant. He is a frequent presenter on the topics of Oracle Text and Ultrasearch at Oracle User Group conferences, and teaches classes on SQL and PL/SQL. He is the coauthor of Oracle Database 10g PL/SQL Programming and has published articles with Oracle Magazine and other online magazines on subjects related to...See more

Ron Hardman, OCP, is a Consulting Technical Specialist with Oracle Worldwide Technical Support. Prior to joining Oracle Corporation, he was an Oracle database developer and consultant. He is a frequent presenter on the topics of Oracle Text and Ultrasearch at Oracle User Group conferences, and teaches classes on SQL and PL/SQL. He is the coauthor of Oracle Database 10g PL/SQL Programming and has published articles with Oracle Magazine and other online magazines on subjects related to information retrieval. Michael McLaughlin, D. CS., is the Senior Application Upgrade Manager for Oracle Applications Release Engineering. He is currently working on the upgrade architecture for the next release of Oracle Applications. He has worked with PL/SQL since its first version in Oracle 6, and has authored customer support notes on customizing Oracle Applications with Pro*C and PL/SQL. He has taught computer science and information technology at Regis University and Colorado Technical University, including courses in database development, SQL, PL/SQL, and Java. He is the coauthor of Oracle Database 10g PL/SQL Programming. See less