Rachel Carmichael has been an Oracle DBA for over nine ears. She chairs the DBA Special Interest Group for the New ork Oracle Users Group, is both Chauncey and OCP certified, and has presented at various international and national conferences, including the ECO all-day DBA seminar for the past three years. She coauthored the Oracle Press book, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Annotated Archives, 1998, with Kevin Loney, and this Oracle Press book, Oracle DBA 101, 2000, with Marlene Theriault and James Viscusi.