SQL Guys: If you were in my shoes

I am a Systems Admin at a medium sized company. I do it all. I am the IT guy who manages the servers but also fixes the printers and so forth. We have a bunch of small SQL databases that the tech support mostly manages but I want to start learning SQL to manage them. This would also give me real world SQL experience for resumes in the future.
What path of SQL do you guys think is best? If you could be in my shoes where would you start to go? I have no opinion on job type since I am very new to SQL. I am going to start studying hardcore tomorrow since I blew out my knee and have a lot of down time.
DBA? Developer?
What path of SQL do you guys think is best? If you could be in my shoes where would you start to go? I have no opinion on job type since I am very new to SQL. I am going to start studying hardcore tomorrow since I blew out my knee and have a lot of down time.
DBA? Developer?
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If you are a analyst, developer, BA etc then I would recommend development. But at the end of the day it's up to you.
There are some instances where the Developer is also the DBA but in medium sized companies, it is rare. I was both in the SMB I worked at.
Hope all of my rambling made sense. Post back if you have questions.
Not only are you going to have to learn the syntax you have to know the business and what they are looking for, even when designing concept reports. It would be a very difficult transition for you.
A lot of times BA's and BI professional can write better queries than programmers, because they understand the data better.
Just saying.....
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