Thanks Evo
Couldnt agree with you more. working in a small company will always involve more responsibility and better satisfaction, in most industries. I am lucky at the moment, because working for the NHS building databases, means you are involved from start to finish, in the entire software development lifecycle, not just one stage, and you get all the lovely nitty gritty stuff too. Thing is though, I would love to work for myself, and at this stage, money is not an issue - like I said, getting a few quid for my first database is a great start and if it could tie in with my job as it is, or in the future, that is an added bonus.
Administration experience would be good yes, I have never really got involved in this area. By adminsitration, do you mean maintaining existing database, or looking at security rights and policies etc?
Thanks
Maz.