[RobertKaucher]

Thanks, guys.

bertieb: "plus for new OCP's you need to complete an Oracle course I think"

Yes, that's correct. I am just looking to get the Associate level cert. I think that will signal my intentions as far as my career path goes.

As far as experience is concerned, I have been working with SQL for a few months now (about 6) and I am regularly writing queries and views for users. I have also been writing t-sql based stored procedures and some custom C# applications that build reports with the sprocs. My next step is developing the disaster recovery plan and some sort of replication. After that I am going to start doing some sort of BI working with sales and other departments.

I'm hoping that after two years of this I will have enough experience and certs that larger companies might actually be interested.