About the Author

Sue Harper is a product manager for Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Developer Data Modeler, and SQL Developer Migrations working in the Database Development Tools group at Oracle. She has a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a post graduate teaching diploma. It was this teaching qualification that opened the doors to working with Oracle products in South Africa, where Sue started as an instructor in 1992, teaching SQL, PL/SQL, and SQL Forms and Reports. Before long, she'd added Oracle Designer to her repertoire and soon left for the UK to join the Oracle Designer curriculum development team. Sue was a course writer and then an Oracle Designer product manager, traveling extensively, meeting customers, presenting at conferences, and running train-the-trainer classes. Later, she became a product manager for Oracle JDeveloper working with the database and modeling tools and helping the Orac le Designer community learn about the new tools, before moving to the Database Development Tools group.

Based at home, Sue works with her team scattered around the world and with customers. She runs web-based training sessions and writes supporting material for the products. She frequently attends and presents at conferences and has a number of blogs, which she contributes to sporadically.

Sue lives in West London, where she enjoys walking her dog in the extensive local parks. As a walker, her favorite stomping ground is the Drakensberg in South Africa. With the 'berg' too many miles away, any local hills will do. As a keen photographer, she now enjoys the long distance trails in the UK and is often out in the countryside with her camera.