Michael Otey is the Senior Technical Editor of SQL Server Magazine and Windows 2000 Magazine. He is also the President of TECA, a consulting and software development company in Portland, Oregon that specializes in Windows, SQL Server and AS/400 utilities. Michael has published numerous articles in SQL Server Magazine and Windows 2000 Magazine. He is the co-author of the SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide and the author of VB Answers! published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill. He is also the author of AS/400 Client Server Programming and the AS/400 Application Developer's Guide published by 29th Street Press. Michael has a B.S. in psychology from Lewis and Clark college and he enjoys running, playing… video games and building computers in his spare time.