Michael Lawson is a database and virtualization specialist at the IBM Center for Microsoft Technologies in Kirkland, WA. He has a B.A. in Information Sciences and Mathematics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Michael has 25 years of experience as a database administrator, the last 10 years with Microsoft SQL Server. Since joining IBM in 1999, he has supported IBM customers running SQL Server on xSeries servers, in the Windows Solution Lab. He has MCDBA (Microsoft Certified Database Administrator) certification.