Maria Colgan is a master product manager at Oracle and has been with the company since Version 7.3 was released in 1996. Maria’s core responsibility is Oracle Database. She is responsible for evangelizing new functionality and getting feedback from customers and partners incorporated into future releases of the product. Previously, Maria was the product manager for Oracle Database In-Memory and query optimizer. Based on her extensive experience with Oracle Database and SQL tuning, she creates material and lectures on Oracle Database In-Memory Option and best practices for incorporating Oracle Database into customer’s environments. She is also a contributing author to the Oracle Optimizer blog and the new Oracle Database In-Memory blog.