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Agilex’ Karen Morton Co-Authors “Expert Oracle Practices: Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table”

New Book Brings Together Best Practices for Oracle Database Administration from Noted Industry Experts

Agilex Technologies, an enterprise application, solution and advisory firm serving the healthcare, national security, and public sectors, today announced that Agilex’ Karen Morton co-authored the recently published Expert Oracle Practices: Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table (Apress). The book brings together many of the best practices established by the Oak Table Network, a group of leading Oracle Database researchers and scientists that includes Morton. Written with a pragmatic focus, the book provides actionable guidance for database administrators seeking to improve the performance and reliability of their mission-critical data management systems.

“’Oakies’ are among the world’s most experienced, knowledgeable and passionate Oracle experts,” said Morton. “Expert Oracle Practices brings together many of the approaches pioneered by the group for optimizing the performance of the Oracle Database. What makes this insight particularly valuable is its real-world basis as each of these approaches has been tested and implemented in actual production environments.”

The Oak Table Network is an invitation-only confederation of Oracle Database experts that includes end-users, leading consultants and Oracle executives. In Expert Oracle Practices, they provide a systematic and detailed discussion of how to optimize the Oracle environment, beginning with the basics and branching into such topics as Cloud Computing, data security and statistical models. Morton’s contributions focus primarily on managing SQL performance, where she’s a renowned authority.

Morton currently serves as a Senior Principal Database Engineer with Agilex. In this capacity, she helps leading government agencies extend the performance of their key enterprise systems to deliver greater value and insight. In addition to Expert Oracle Practices, Morton is also the co-author of Beginning Oracle SQL (Apress), a recently published primer on the use of the interactive query tools and SQL dialect within the Oracle Database. Morton is also an Ask an Expert for SearchOracle.com and a frequent blogger.

“Expert Oracle Practices: Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table is a significant addition to the DBA toolkit. I only wish that this insight was so readily available when I started working with Oracle,” said Tim Hoechst, chief technology officer, Agilex Technologies, Inc. “We are delighted to have Karen as a key member of the Oracle practice here at Agilex. She exemplifies our commitment to providing world-class experts with deep, hands on experience and a real desire to work shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients."

About Agilex Technologies, Inc.

Agilex is an employee-owned provider of mission and technology solutions to the national security, healthcare and public sectors. Realize the Value of Information® is our corporate mantra as we help clients unlock the value of information while reducing the cost to manage it. Our notable professionals include former federal CIOs, multiple patent holders, and architects for some of the U.S. government's most critical IT systems.

Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, Agilex has delivered significant results for an impressive list of clients throughout federal, state and local government, and within global 2000 corporations. The company was recognized by the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) as the organization's 2010 Hottest Emerging Government Contractor for the Washington, DC metropolitan region. Agilex is also a member of the Healthcare Informatics 100 (HCI 100), which ranks the nation's top 100 health IT vendors by revenue.

For more information, go to www.Agilex.com or call 1-888-3AGILEX.

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