Christian Trieb has worked with ORACLE products since 1991. He graduated with a computer science degree and started working with ORACLERDBMS Version 5. Today he is Senior DBA at Paragon Data GmbH, an ORACLE Platinum Partner in Germany. He was awarded with theORACLE Database PartnerLab Master and was part of the user group beta tester for ORACLE Database 10gR2. He has presented at OOW in San Francisco, served as vice - chair of the German ORACLE User Group (DOAG [www.doag.de]) and is responsible for the strategy of the database as well as for the international topics and affairs in the German ORACLE User Group(Member of the IOUC and EOUC). He is also the head of the DOAG Database Community. He is also Board Member of the EMEA ORACLE User Group Community Christian lives with his wifeand two children in Worms at the Rhine.