Roger MacNicol

Roger MacNicol is a Software Architect for Oracle’s Data & Storage Technology group: he has been working on core database internals for 30 years and at Oracle for 15 years. He has worked on the implementation of Table Scans, Hybrid Columnar Compression, Exadata Smart Scan, Big Data SQL, and Database In-Memory; he is currently working on Persistent Memory support. Before Oracle, he was the architect for Sybase IQ Query Engine – the world’s first commercial columnar database and was the 1st chair of the TPC-H subcommittee.