for this tutorial, we'll choose the Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) available with Visual Studio .NET, Office XP Developer, and several other products. We'll add one database, say web, and then add one table, say users. To the users table, we'll add three fields: username, password, and roles. Set the username field to the primary key (since it'll be used for look-ups and needs to be unique), and optionally create an index on the username and password fields together. If you're using Table-creation SQL Scripts, your script might look something like this: