MICHAEL AULT is a Senior Technical Management Consultant for the Atlanta office of TUSC, Inc. He is also the systems operator for Quest-RevealNet Lab's DPAPipeline forum and writes articles regularly in Oracle Internals and Select. Previously, Ault was a senior consultant for the DBAGroup LLC and the corporate technical officer of DBMentors International, which he founded after four years as the associate director for the Oracle practice at DMR Consulting Group.