Hi bob__21,
Thanks for your input and yes thank you I'm doing very well. As discussed with Duran I will set up my SQL lab ASAP I think this is my number one priority. Great advice regarding searching for day to day DBA activities. Further I agree with point 4 and this is where I want to be. I'm lucky as I have all the official MS course books and there are detailed labs at the end of every chapter that I'm going to complete using my lab environment.
Finally I recently found this book 'SQL Server Interview Questions & Answers', has anyone seen it? http://bit.ly/sqlinterviewbook
Here's a quote from it any thoughts?
Once we analyzed the content of many, many interviews we realised that most of them do not require a deep knowledge of the technical details of SQL, but they did require a solid understanding of the basics. Luckily, it is not necessary to know SQL inside and out to clear an interview. Subjects like 'SQL Server' are so vast it would take a lifetime to learn every detail of what it can do....even we learn something new every day!
Thanks...
Dan (ITGuy)
MCTS | MCITP | Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration & Development
MCSA | MCSE | Business Intelligence SQL Server 2012