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Following a 6 year Navy enlistment in the Nuclear Navy riding submarines, Mike began working with computers in 1980 programming in Basic and Fortran IV on the PDP-11 architecture in the nuclear industry. During Mike’s nuclear years he worked with PDP, IBM-PC, Osborne and later VAX-VMS and HP architectures and with the Informix and Ingres databases. Mike was a submarine qualified nuclear technologist performing chemistry, radiochemistry and health physics related activities on board two nuclear submarines. Mike worked at Waterford III, VC Summer, Palo Verde and Sequoyah civilian nuclear plants as a radiochemist and gamma spectroscopist.
Following the downturn in the nuclear industry Mike began working with Oracle as the only DBA at the Iuka, Mississippi based Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (ASRM) project for NASA in 1990. Since 1990 Mike has worked with a variety of industries both as in house and consulting talent working with Oracle database systems.
Mike has published nearly two-dozen Oracle related books including the 7.0, 8.0, 8i and 9i versions of his Oracle Administration and Management title with Wiley, the Oracle8 Black Book and Oracle DBA OCP ExamCram series (for versions 8 and 8i) with Coriolis and multiple titles including Oracle9i RAC and Oracle10g Grid and RAC with Rampant Technical Press. Mike has written articles for Oracle, Select, DBMS, Oracle Internals and several other database related magazines. Mike is also a frequently high-rated presenter at local, regional and international Oracle conferences such as GOUSERS, SEOUG, RMOUG, NYOUG, NCOUG, IOUG, OOW, ODTUG, UKOUG and EOUG.
Mike's interests are fly fishing, writing, photography (both above and below the water) and scuba diving. Mike is an advanced open water certified diver with over 100 dives to his credit since 2004 when he first certified.
Mike's blog is at mikerault.blogspot.com , his scuba diving site is at www.scubamage.com and his business blog is featured at www.toadworld.com, look for his other writings in these locations.