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The Passing of Lex de Haan

The Oracle community lost a valued contributor. Oracle author, presenter and educator Lex de Haan passed away after a battle with cancer. I intended to write about our Giant Eagle ASM test plan but it is important for me to take a few minutes to talk about Lex first. Look for my blog on our test plan in a day or two.

Let me begin by stating that I never had the good fortune of knowing Lex personally. I only knew him professionally from his contributions to the Oracle community and the great reviews I read about him from others. I recently proposed that DBAZine ask him if he would like to contribute some additional articles for us. I was very impressed by his articles on SQL joins that were published in DBAZine last year. I wanted DBAZine to have more content on the SQL language and thought that Lex would be an excellent contributor.

Lex had the perfect background, having worked for the Oracle Corporation for fourteen years. For four of those years, Lex worked as the senior curriculum manager for Oracle's education division. In 2004, Lex left Oracle to start his own consulting company specializing in data modeling, SQL tuning, database design and database internals. What better background could I offer to DBAZine readers?

As I said, I knew Lex from his body of work and his reviews. Lex was an international presenter, a member of the Dutch national body of the ANSI/ISO standards committee and a founding member of theOaktable Network. Lex was also the author of a book titled Mastering Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus from Apress Publishing. An excellent book written by someone who had the knack for teaching.

I have a personal history with cancer. My wife has had the misfortune of being diagnosed with it twice. I know the road that is followed during that time is not an easy one. My sincere sympathies to Lex's family and friends. From those that knew him personally and those of us that didn't, he will be missed. I'm sure his comrades at the Oak Table will keep a place open for him...

Look for my blog on ASM in a day or two.

Chris Foot.

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