Imagine this.. You work in a medium sized company, using MSSQL2005 and nothing else.
They are very tight on budget, try to be productive, focused and specialised, unlike government orgs and banks where there's a great variety of things.
I am sorry that you are totally wrong about bank and government.
I used to work for a fortunate 500 bank, no one got any training. The pay and benefit was lousy. If you decided to go to school, you got $500 per year for reimbursement.
Now I am working for government agent, that is even worse. We have to wait for government budget, grant and everything before we can do anything. We still use office 2003 and SQL Server 2000. If nothing breaks, why change?
People working for the government have no motivation to change or learn anything new. I am very frustrated now at my position.:angry: