SQL Career Path Advice Please

Hello Everyone
I'd like some advice on a training path to becoming a SQL developer. I’m not sure what employers are looking for out there so I’m reaching out to the community for advice. I have prior experience working in Hyperion , mostly reporting standpoint, and now I want to change my career to sql as I am very new to this feild I really donot understand which one to choose whether to go up with SQL,T-sql,Pl/sql,SSIS,SSRS,SSAS or mysql. Can anyone please give me some advice on where to start and what employers are looking for?
I really would appreciate if anyone can help me out
Many Thanks!
Boya

Most employers do not look for SQL developers - or at least not that often. "Developers" are typically c++/Java etc with knowledge and more importantly expertise in the SQL language. Download Oracle XE, MySQL, Postgressql etc.. and start looking through the various forums and books and begin testing. You only learn this by doing. Should you require assistance from the forum, make sure you can provide a small sample ddl/data and what you have attempted. Some of us frown at the idea of performing someone's job without compensation :) Especially when there is no obvious effort on the part of the poster.
After 20+ years, there are still things that I can learn from others. One thing to remember about SQL databases, a test on a small subset of data may not be indicative of extremely large data sets. (and 1M rows is NOT a lot of data). I have had systems that insert > 1M rec/second and > 1TB/day.

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<<email ID removed>>
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