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Gregory Mikolay Shares a 12-Month Outlook for Oracle Database Work, Performance Tuning, and Enterprise Systems
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Gregory Mikolay, a Senior Oracle Developer based in Salt Lake City, Utah, outlines what individuals should expect over the next year across Oracle PL/SQL development, SQL performance tuning, and enterprise database operations.
Utah, US, 25th February 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Gregory Mikolay, Senior Oracle Developer and Oracle database consultant focused on PL/SQL development and performance tuning, is sharing a practical one-year outlook for individuals working in Oracle database development, application tuning, and enterprise reporting environments.
Gregory Mikolay’s outlook is shaped by more than two decades in IT and a career spent inside high-demand transactional systems, data warehouse environments, and reporting stacks that span Oracle EBS tooling and related enterprise workflows. Over the next year, he expects the work to keep moving toward higher urgency, higher scrutiny on performance, and faster cycles of change inside organizations.
I have embarked on several Career Paths throughout my life.
Looking to become an integral part of a team of individuals involved in all areas of development, from designing applications to troubleshooting database applications and software.
What changed recently
Across enterprise environments, the day-to-day expectations around database work have tightened. The technical bar remains high, but the bigger shift is operational: data sets are larger, systems are pushed harder, teams are more distributed, and the tolerance for slowdowns is lower.
Gregory Mikolay’s recent consulting work at Elite Data Partners has centered on PL/SQL development and database and application performance tuning for clients, often in hybrid settings. His prior role at Young Living Essential Oils combined Agile development with an on-call support model for promotions, requiring rapid context switching between planned work and urgent delivery support.
Position required one’s ability to switch between a market/customer ad hoc/on call support model for promotions and agile for development tasks.
What people are getting wrong
Gregory Mikolay sees individuals underestimate how much performance work is now a full-time mindset, not a periodic cleanup. Many treat tuning as something you do only when a system is already strained. In practice, tuning starts earlier: with table designs, table relationships, application interactions with database objects, query design, indexing optimization strategies, package design, and an ongoing habit of validating how changes behave under load.
He also sees individuals over-focus on tools and under-focus on fundamentals: clean SQL, readable PL/SQL, careful use of triggers, and clear documentation that survives team handoffs. In environments where business needs and technical constraints collide, long-term reliability often depends on consistency and communication, not clever shortcuts.
Known for precision and persistence, Gregory brings deep technical fluency to every project, often serving as a critical link between engineering teams and business units.
What is likely to get harder next year
Gregory Mikolay expects pressure to increase in four areas:
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Faster turnaround demands for production support and ad hoc needs
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Higher expectations for cross-team coordination across remote and offshore structures
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More attention to performance and data integrity alignment with business requirements
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Less tolerance for fragile fixes that do not scale
The strongest contributors will be those who can move between building and stabilizing. That includes the ability to tune SQL and PL/SQL, partner effectively with DBAs, and balance performance gains against real constraints like load, memory, and disk parameters.
Additional tasks required performance tuning of PL/SQL programs, SQL queries, creating indexes and working with DBA’s on database performance tuning measures balancing performance with resources/load/memory/disk parameters.
What will work
Mikolay expects the most durable approach to be practical, repeatable habits:
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Treat performance as a design requirement, not a rescue task
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Build change discipline around packages, procedures, functions, and triggers
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Invest in collaboration habits that hold up in hybrid and distributed teams
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Keep documentation and technical design artifacts current
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Stay fluent across the stack you support, including reporting and ETL where relevant
His experience spans transactional systems support, data warehouse ETL development on Oracle 19c, 12g, 11g, Oracle Reports and Discoverer environments, and enterprise support structures that connect IT delivery to business needs.
Data points from Gregory Mikolay’s background
These figures reflect the operating realities that shape Gregory Mikolay’s outlook:
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20+ years in the IT industry
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Consulting at Elite Data Partners since June 2022 (3 years 9 months)
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Young Living Essential Oils role: Feb 2018 to May 2022 (4 years 4 months)
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Crown Point Ecology contract: Jan 2016 to Feb 2018 (2 years 2 months)
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Signet Jewelers role: Jan 2013 to Jan 2016 (3 years 1 month)
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Fox Chapel Area High School graduation: 1986
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Associate’s Degree completion: 1999, summa cum laude, with a 4.0 grade
Three scenarios for the next 12 months and the best individual actions
Optimistic scenario
Workflows stabilize. Teams get clearer on ownership. Performance work is planned earlier and executed more consistently.
Best individual actions:
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Standardize a personal checklist for SQL and PL/SQL review before deployment
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Build a repeatable approach to indexing strategy and query validation
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Maintain a living library of patterns for packages, procedures, and common tuning fixes
Realistic scenario
Demand remains high. Priorities shift often. Support work and development work keep colliding, especially around promotions, reporting, and peak operational windows.
Best individual actions:
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Practice fast context switching with a tight note-taking and handoff routine
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Keep tuning skills sharp by regularly reviewing execution plans and query behavior
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Strengthen working relationships with DBAs and adjacent teams to shorten diagnosis time
Cautious scenario
More unplanned work lands in production. Systems run closer to the edge. Teams are stretched, and small inefficiencies create outsized disruption.
Best individual actions:
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Focus on stability first: simplify brittle SQL, use effective PL/SQL code, reduce unnecessary complexity
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Create rollback-aware deployment habits and clear validation steps
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Push for documentation discipline so fixes do not disappear with team changes
Readers can choose a scenario, optimistic, realistic, or cautious, and commit to the matching steps for the next 12 months. Start with the checklist and habits that fit your environment, then make them routine. The work compounds over time, especially in performance tuning and enterprise database support.
About Gregory Mikolay
Gregory Mikolay is a Senior Oracle Developer and Oracle database consultant based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He focuses on Oracle PL/SQL development, SQL performance tuning, and enterprise database support and optimization, with experience across transactional systems, data warehouse ETL work, and reporting environments.
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ChangeNOW Brings Martin Masser Into Its Crypto Super App
Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, August 5th, 2026, Chainwire
The former TON executive joins as Director of Strategic Partnerships to form the connections behind ChangeNOW’s next phase.
Former TON executive Martin Masser joins ChangeNOW to build strategic partnerships, ecosystem relationships, and media momentum behind its next phase.
Masser comes with experience across traditional banking, Web2 and Web3, including senior growth and business development roles within the TON space. At ChangeNOW, he will lead strategic relationships with blockchain networks, wallets, fintech companies, payment providers and other infrastructure partners.
His appointment comes as ChangeNOW grows beyond standalone crypto services, transitioning to one connected product where users can buy, store, swap, trade, send, receive and grow digital assets. The industry has already built most of the individual components. What it hasn’t solved is the experience of using them together; clients are still expected to switch between platforms, understand different networks and connect the pieces on their own. ChangeNOW’s super app strategy is designed to move that complexity beneath the product.
“Martin brings a rare mix of commercial relationships, product and media understanding,” said Pauline Shangett, Chief Strategy Officer at ChangeNOW. “He knows what the technology can do, what the business needs and how to make the market pay attention. That is exactly the perspective we need as we build the ChangeNOW super app.”
Masser’s role will focus not on accumulating partnership announcements, but on identifying relationships that can make ChangeNOW’s infrastructure more complete and remove unnecessary steps from the сlient experience.
“The best partnerships create access, adoption and attention. My focus is to build relationships that make the product stronger, simpler and more useful, and then help the market understand why they matter. If you are building wallets, networks, payments, stablecoins, fintech infrastructure, consumer crypto or Web3 products, I want to hear from you,” said Masser.
For consumers, ChangeNOW is combining the core activities of managing crypto within one environment. For businesses, it is developing an integrated set of tools for crypto payments, exchange, stablecoin settlement, digital asset management and Web3 integrations.
As ChangeNOW expands into a crypto super app, its next phase is connecting the right networks, wallets and partners. Masser’s role will be central to building those relationships and turning them into product value, adoption and market momentum.
About ChangeNOW
ChangeNOW.io is a crypto super app built for every crypto move, giving newcomers, professionals, and businesses the tools they need to access Web3 finance in a simple and secure way.
Since 2017, ChangeNOW has grown from a fast, secure, and limitless instant exchange into a trusted platform where storage, swaps, trading, staking, and asset management are covered in one simple experience for millions of clients worldwide.
About Martin Masser
Martin Masser is Director of Strategic Partnerships at ChangeNOW, where he is building partnerships around the company’s expansion into a crypto super app. His career covers traditional banking and capital markets in London and Web3, including his previous role as Head of Growth at TON Foundation. Martin works at the intersection of growth, infrastructure, and partnerships, connecting products and industry players to make crypto services work as one seamless user experience.
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Press Release
allwhere Expands UK Operations with Upgraded Depot
New York City, New York, August 5th, 2026, FinanceWire
allwhere, the leading IT asset lifecycle management platform, today announced the expansion of its UK operations with the opening of a larger, upgraded depot. The investment increases warehouse capacity, streamlines fulfillment operations, and strengthens allwhere’s ability to support organizations managing employee devices across the United Kingdom.
The upgraded facility represents a significant investment in allwhere’s existing UK infrastructure, enabling the company to deliver faster turnaround times, greater operational efficiency, and additional inventory capacity as demand for global device lifecycle management continues to grow.
“As more organizations build distributed teams, the operational side of IT has become increasingly important,” said Tony Solomon, VP of Global Operations at allwhere. “This investment strengthens the foundation of our UK operations, allowing us to fulfill orders more efficiently, scale alongside our customers, and continue delivering the high level of service they expect from allwhere.”
Built to Support Growing IT Operations
The expanded UK depot enhances every stage of the device lifecycle by improving warehouse operations and increasing fulfillment capacity.
Customers can expect benefits including:
- Faster fulfillment, expedited shipping, and improved turnaround times for deployments and retrievals
- Increased warehouse capacity to support growing inventory needs
- More efficient storage, inventory management, and redeployment workflows
- Standardized operational processes that improve consistency and scalability
- End-to-end lifecycle support managed through a single platform
Whether onboarding a new employee, retrieving equipment from an offboarded team member, storing spare inventory, or preparing devices for redeployment, the upgraded facility enables allwhere to execute these workflows more efficiently while maintaining complete visibility through its platform.
Software and Operations, Unified
Unlike traditional asset management solutions that rely on disconnected software, logistics providers, and warehouses, allwhere combines workflow automation with global operational infrastructure.
Organizations can manage procurement, deployment, inventory, retrievals, storage, repairs, redeployment, and IT asset disposition through a single platform, while allwhere handles the operational execution behind the scenes.
The expanded UK depot further strengthens this model by providing the operational capacity needed to support larger fleets, faster fulfillment, and increasingly complex IT programs.
Continuing to Invest in Global Infrastructure
The UK depot expansion is part of allwhere’s continued investment in its global logistics network. allwhere currently operates full-service depots in the UK, Canada, EU, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Later this year, the company plans to further scale its infrastructure into the APAC region, with upcoming depot services in Australia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and more.
As organizations continue to scale distributed workforces, allwhere remains focused on expanding the operational infrastructure that powers modern IT teams—combining intelligent software with local logistics expertise to simplify device lifecycle management around the world.
About allwhere
allwhere is a laptop retrieval and IT procurement company that automates the IT asset lifecycle for companies ranging from startups to enterprises. From procurement and deployment to storage, maintenance, and retrieval, allwhere provides the infrastructure businesses need to support a global, distributed workforce.
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Head of Marketing
Brent Singleton
allwhere
info@allwhere.co
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Borderless.xyz Teams Up with Mastercard to Advance Trusted Cross-Border Stablecoin Payment Flows
New York, New York, August 5th, 2026, FinanceWire
Borderless.xyz will explore how Mastercard Crypto Credential can help bring greater trust and confidence to cross-border stablecoin payments.
Borderless.xyz and Mastercard are collaborating on a new pilot to explore how Mastercard Crypto Credential’s standards-based framework can support trusted interactions across cross-border stablecoin payment flows.
Stablecoins are increasingly being used to move value across borders, creating new opportunities for faster and more efficient payments. As adoption grows, participants need trusted ways to understand who they are interacting with and whether counterparties have met appropriate standards and requirements.
Through the pilot, Borderless.xyz and Mastercard will explore how Mastercard Crypto Credential can address that challenge by providing assurance signals that participants can incorporate into their own approval, compliance and risk processes.
Mastercard Crypto Credential helps support trusted and verifiable interactions across digital asset ecosystems. Through common standards and trusted assurance signals, it is designed to help bring more confidence, transparency and certainty to transactions across blockchain networks.
The collaboration pairs Mastercard’s work in building trust and standards for digital asset ecosystems with Borderless.xyz’s network of stablecoin payment providers. Together, the companies are exploring how trusted governance signals can help reduce friction and bring greater confidence to cross-border stablecoin payments as adoption grows.
“One of the biggest friction points for stablecoin payment operators isn’t the payments. It’s that compliance doesn’t scale the same way the network does. Every new provider means starting the verification process over. Correspondent banking solved this decades ago: originating compliance trusted downstream, no re-execution at every counterparty. Mastercard is applying that model to digital asset payments. Borderless.xyz is the network it runs through.” – Kevin Lehtiniitty, CEO and Co-Founder, Borderless.xyz
“Innovation is most powerful when it builds over time. Our relationship with Borderless.xyz began through Start Path and has continued to grow as the digital asset ecosystem has matured,” said Raj Dhamodharan, executive vice president, Blockchain & Digital Assets at Mastercard. “Today, we’re excited to take the next step together, exploring how Mastercard Crypto Credential can help bring greater trust and confidence to stablecoin payment flows across a growing network of participants.”
The pilot brings together several of Borderless.xyz‘s network participants consisting of Infinia, Walapay, and Koywe, many of whom are also alumni of Mastercard Start Path, the company’s startup engagement program. These partners will leverage Mastercard Crypto Credential as some of the first stablecoin payment operators to run on the single-audit compliance model at network scale.
About Borderless.xyz
Borderless.xyz is a global stablecoin orchestration and liquidity network. Its single API connects wallet infrastructure to 15+ licensed stablecoin providers across 100+ countries. It lets businesses enter new markets without new integrations, get failover so payments don’t drop, and make providers compete for your volume on price. Borderless.xyz is SOC 2 Type II certified and headquartered in New York. To learn more, users can visit the website: borderless.xyz.
About Mastercard
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a resilient economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential
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Sarah Cohen
SJC PR
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