I have just received my SQL Server 2005 Implementation and MaintenanceTraining Kit from the mail today. Actually this is just my first attempt to shoot for a Microsoft Certification (MCTS:70-431). I hope everything goes well. I believe that learning the DBA side of the Database will not hamper my effort to dive deeper into programming and application development in general. Studying the structures and objects of the database lays the blueprint of where I want to be. I never had any serious attempt to learn these things until now. So now I am taking all the possible channels to get hold of that dream that I have always put on the wayside --- being a developer.

I haven't reached any milestone yet. At least now I am taking my first steps. And I am looking ahead.