Ann McKinnell is currently a Senior Principal Consultant with APG Technologies, LLC and has been an OCP since Oracle 7.3.4. She came to APG with over 8 years as a senior technical member of Oracle Global Support, specializing in Replication and Distributed System technologies. She was a recognized global technical expert for Oracle Distributed Systems; earning the internal nickname 'The Replication Goddess'. Ann has trained Oracle Support and Consulting personnel from many countries in Advanced Replication and Distributed System Internals and Problem Solving techniques. She has authored and co-authored many of the Oracle Advanced Replication notes found on Oracle Metalink, and was a technical reviewer for the Oracle University Pilot 9i Steams course material, as well as various Oracle Replication and Database Administration user manuals. Ann continues to specialize in practical implementation strategies and the development of distributed Oracle database systems, database architecture, and software and database design and integration. Eric Yen began working with Oracle Databases at version 7.3.4. Over the following 14 years, he obtained his Oracle DBA Certification starting with version 8, maintaining it up to the current release, and he has also earned the (ISC)2 CISSP certification. Eric began working with Oracle Streams with Oracle 9i Streams beta. As a Senior Principal Consultant with APG Technologies, LLC, Eric's work includes designing and implementing Streams solutions for Government clients using the more recent versions of Streams in Oracle 10 and Oracle 11. During his little spare time, you can find Eric exercising and tinkering around with Oracle products.