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David Kurtz
Full Name
ACE Director
Top Level Details
Job Role
Consultant
Company
Go-Faster Consultancy
Country
United Kingdom
Top Expertise
Performance
Focus Area
Database
About David
<p>David is a consultant specializing in system performance tuning. He started working with the Oracle database in 1989 as a developer. He is also known as an expert in the PeopleSoft field.</p> <p>He worked for PeopleSoft UK and then as an independent consultant providing performance consultancy, mostly to PeopleSoft customers.</p> <p>He is the author of 'PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA', and blogs about PeopleSoft & Oracle.</p> <p>He has been involved with the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) for many years, presenting regularly at meetings and conferences. He formerly served as a UKOUG SIG chair and then director. He is an Oracle ACE Director and member of the Oak Table.</p>
Expertises
Performance
Database
PeopleSoft PeopleTools
PeopleSoft
Home Page
http://www.go-faster.co.uk
Oracle Community
https://forums.oracle.com/ords/apexds/user/david-kurtz2
Links
Latest Contributions
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Consuming Inbound HTTP Requests with REST Services
Apr 09, 2026 - Blog post -
Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS)
Database 26ai
Autonomous
Autonomous Database
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Loading GeoJSON Format GeoSpatial Data into Oracle Autonomous Database
Apr 08, 2026 - Blog post -
Oracle Spatial and Graph
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
Autonomous JSON Database
Spatial and Graph Data
JSON
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Instrumentation Instrumentation Instrumentation
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Database
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Making HTTP Requests from an Oracle Database
Mar 31, 2026 - Blog post -
Autonomous Database
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Loading and Processing JSON with PL/SQL
Mar 26, 2026 - Blog post -
JSON
JSON Relational Duality Views
Base Database Service
Autonomous Database
Database 26ai
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Oracle 23ai/26ai: The New RETURNING Clause for the MERGE Statement
Mar 25, 2026 - Blog post -
Database 26ai
Database 23ai
Database
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ChatGPT & Oracle Development
Mar 24, 2026 - Blog post -
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Oracle PL/SQL
Autonomous Database
Database 26ai
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Job Classes on Autonomous Database
Mar 23, 2026 - Blog post -
Autonomous Database
Database 26ai
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Oracle 26ai Autonomous Database
Mar 23, 2026 - Blog post -
Database 26ai
Autonomous Database
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Demonstration of Parallel Execution tasks (DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE) with Job Class
Feb 12, 2026 - Blog post -
Base Database Service
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Demonstration of Scheduler Jobs (DBMS_SCHEDULER) with Job Class
Feb 03, 2026 - Blog post -
Base Database Service
Database 19c
Database
Database 26ai
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Job Classes and the Database Scheduler
Jan 30, 2026 - Blog post -
Base Database Service
Database 19c
Database
Database Administrator (DBA)
Database 26ai
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Changing the Database Scheduler Maintenance Windows
Jan 21, 2026 - Blog post -
Base Database Service
Database
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Instrumentation! Instrumentation! Instrumentation!
Jan 13, 2026 - Blog post -
Base Database Service
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Managing Ad Hoc PS/Queries in PeopleSoft
Jan 06, 2026 - Blog post -
PeopleSoft
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