Richard Waymire, a group program manager with the SQL Server development team at Microsoft, is also a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator and Systems Engineer. He's been working on various versions of SQL Server since 1994, and joined the Microsoft development team in 1998. Richard has been a programmer, DBA, and trainer on SQL Server before joining Microsoft. Richard still considers himself a database administrator at heart. You can reach Richard at rwaymi@hotmail.com.
Rick Sawtell is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer and Certified Trainer. He owns his own consulting firm based in the Hawaiian Islands and currently consults, trains, and writes computer books on several Microsoft products. He has more than 17 years of experience in the consulting and programming arena, with emphasis on database front-end and back-end development. You can reach Rick at r_sawtell@hotmail.com.