Your company doesn’t want to send you off to conferences or training classes in other cities.
You’ve looked around locally, but the local options seem to be irrelevant to your needs. It’s generic stuff like how to pass certification classes, or boot camps to get your first DBA job.
Perhaps you’ve even talked to some trainers about coming to your company, but you’ve been left with the sinking feeling that you actually knew more than the trainer did. You guessed that the trainer was simply reading off training material that somebody else wrote.
You’re wishing that you could get real-world,