I'm a self taught VB6 programmer (with a whole lota help from sites like this
I'm pretty good with VB6 now.
I've just recently started teaching myself DB's
I have OfficeXP so I've started with Access.
I'm mainly interested in increasing my income potential from programming.

BUT
A friend of mine just gifted me with full, licensable versions of Visual Studio .net Enterprise and .net Enterprise Servers
(he has a son-in-law that works for MS

SO...
Should I stick with Access for a while or jump into SQL and hope I don't drown?
P.S. I've also downloaded MySQL but haven't installed it either.