I’m very delighted to announce, I’ve become an Oracle Ace 🙂

I received notification from the Oracle Ace Program a few weeks back saying:
“I am pleased to inform you that you have been chosen to receive the Oracle ACE award.  You have been chosen based on your significant contribution and activity in the Oracle technical community.  Like your fellow Oracle ACEs, you have demonstrated a proficiency in Oracle technology as well as a willingness to share your knowledge and experiences with the community.”

The Oracle Ace Program is Oracle’s way of recognising those individuals that give back to the Oracle community.  There are 3 levels:

• Oracle Ace Associate for those who are just starting up
• Oracle Ace for those who are established
• Oracle Ace Director for those who are renowned and work closely with Oracle

More information can  be found here.

I was waiting for this to become official before announcing, but seem as I received this in the post over the weekend, I guess it’s official 🙂 :

I would like to thank Tim Hall (ORACLE-BASE), for the conversation we had back in Oracle Open World 15 #OOW15, where we had deep discussion about blogging.  This was the start of my journey in the blogging space, which Tim has mentored me throughout and was first to nominate me to the Oracle Ace Program.  So many thanks Tim 🙂

I would also like to thank Kiran Tailor (Pure DBA), for also nominating me to the Oracle Ace Program.  As well as Zohar Elkayam (Real DBA Magic), Martin Widlake (Yet Another Oracle Blog) and Neil Chandler (DB Blog) for their tips and tricks.  As well as Jeff Smith (That Jeff Smith), Monty Latiolais (Monty Latiolais blogspot) and Pete Sharman (Pete who did not tweet) for promoting my blog.

And finally, most importantly Version 1 for supporting my blogging and presenting activities as well as UK Oracle User Group who have been kind enough to accept my presentations over the last few years and for the Oracle Ace Program for accepting me 🙂  And not to mention my wife and kids for letting me enjoy myself at conferences when I could be spending time with them 🙂

I’m very honoured, proud and grateful to be an Oracle Ace in addition to my Oracle Certified Master, which make 2 out of 3 of my career long ambitions of:

• Becoming an Oracle Certified Master
• Becoming an Oracle Ace
• Becoming a member of the OakTable network

Which is not bad, so I guess now it time to upgrade my OCM to 12c, maintain my Oracle Ace (with possibility of becoming Ace Director) for many more years and hope to achieve latter 🙂

For those who are interested, you can see my Oracle Ace profile here.

Thanks for all your support!

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Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)