Not quite sure what you mean is this a positive comment or a passive aggressive negative one.
I still contented the £2K (back in the day) that my employer spent on a week long intro to Oracle was a good investment for them and Me.
I still contented the £2K (back in the day) that my employer spent on a week long intro to Oracle was a good investment for them and Me.
As for how my employer at the time pointed me toward SQL was something like; "Here is yahoo.com, learn SybaseSQL by Monday on your own, you start a new project on Monday that requires it". It was Friday afternoon, in 1998 and Google was still in it's infancy, hence all searches were done via yahoo or altavista. And I had to learn it by myself over the week-end. Not even a £0.02 investment from my boss.
Most people are not going to "learn databases" over the weekend. A boss or company that has employees capable of this type of independent learning and routinely expects it will soon lose the former. That costs more than 2 cents.