Thanks for posting again MyDogJessie. Yes, this a very good approach. In a way I been doing this and I've made some headway but , because I developed them on my laptop my boss doesn't see what the big problem is because I have already done the work. I've told him that it's not backed up unless I do it myself with my external drive from home and that it's not robust, can be disconnected to take home,etc. He's able to say "Let's do this in Access" though so that's his way of dealing with it. I don't want to develop in Access. I paid my dues.

You're right that this can't continue indefinitely. It's extremely important to me to do database administration. I'm willing to do other things to accompany it but I do want to keep growing in DBA work. They call me "DBA" but, like I said, they don't know what DBA work is. I did not know this on the interview. I was told I could build the servers but the jr. network admin made sure to freeze me out before I got in the door. She's on leave now so I think my boss is waiting until that's over before making a decision. Meanwhile two servers sit there without anyone using the SQL instances. The network admin doesn't want to be a DBA so that's not the reason. I'll post again if anything new happens one way or the other. Thanks again.