Ninja's_RGR'us (1/20/2011)
Agreed here. There's no way out of this. You either pay for a license or pay for time.The only question here is how much is the license compared to man hours.
That's when you realize how cheap a license is :hehe:.
This morphing into a completely different subject, but for what it is worth let me also point out:
1. Paying for time - lets change that slightly to paying for your training in SQL.
2. Subtract from the time cost by the intangible. That is what you learn will (could) make you an more productive employee, whose new knowledge will allow for the development of new databases in a shorter time period, and that are more effective in answering your companies needs.
Thus offsetting what is considered a cost to an investment and estimating the ROI (Return On Investment). Which might even become a positive value.
So like most things in SQL the phrase "It depends" applies to your situation.